IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wadley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: s2016AL007029
  • User Pedon ID: S2016AL007029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0202
  • User Project ID: TALL_008_NEON
  • Project Name: Talladega National Forest
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 32.9014167
  • Std. Longitude: -87.4322889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Talladega National Forest; Neon Sampling site
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL007—Bibb
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL007—Bibb County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32087-H4—Payne Lake, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Depew, Alison Steglich, Alvin Perez
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Grossarenic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - TALL_029
  • 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 - Depew, Steve

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/10/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Steve Depew, Alison Steglich, Alvin Perez
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    0—14

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    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

    15

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01399; observed in pit, small
    E1—14 to 42 centimeters (5.5 to 16.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loamy sand; 2 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very fine distinct irregular and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very fine faint irregular mottles; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01400; observed in pit, small
    E2—42 to 60 centimeters (16.5 to 23.6 inches); 60 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) loamy sand; 20 percent 10Y 5/8 (10Y 5/8) fine distinct irregular mottles; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01401; observed in pit, small
    E3—60 to 100 centimeters (23.6 to 39.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loamy sand; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) very fine faint irregular and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct irregular mottles; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter plinthite nodules fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 18N01402; observed in pit, small