IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maubila
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016AL007016
  • User Pedon ID: S2016AL007016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0192
  • User Project ID: TALL_008_NEON
  • Project Name: Talladega National Forest
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 32.9702500
  • Std. Longitude: -87.4152500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Talladega National Forest in Bibb and Hale County Alabama.
  • Map Unit: WdE—Wadley-Smithdale-Boykin complex, 5 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL007—Bibb
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32087-H4—Payne Lake, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Burns, Hopkins, Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, subactive, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maubila
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, subactive, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/28/2016
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: marine deposits and/or slope alluvium
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - TALL_016
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 35
  • Plot Baseline Length - 3
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of Pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Burns, John

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/10/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Burns, Hopkins, Moore
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—50

    50—100

    —50—

    —50—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    23

    —

    —

    97

    —

    180

    1488

    —

    229

    16.9

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; many (20.0) medium roots throughout and many (20.0) fine roots throughout and common (2.0) coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01361; observed in pit, small
    Ab—8 to 50 centimeters (3.1 to 19.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; common (5.0) medium roots throughout and common (5.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 50-70-90 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N01362; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—50 to 72 centimeters (19.7 to 28.3 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.1) fine roots between peds; 10 percent fine prominent noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron between peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 4-5-7 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 50-70-90 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N01363; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—72 to 100 centimeters (28.3 to 39.4 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2 percent fine distinct noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, masses of reduced iron and 10 percent medium prominent noncoherent cemented dark red (10R 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 4-5-7 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 50-70-90 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 18N01364; observed in pit, small