IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cahaba
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05AL007001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 05AL007001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S05AL-007-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24160
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 33.0226944
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8781111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23 N
  • Range: 12 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: about 1.2 miles southeast of Brierfield; 1,000 feet east and 1,500 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 33, T. 23 N., R. 12 E.; Aldrich quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL007—Bibb
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL007—Bibb County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cahaba
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cahaba
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    20—106

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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

    2

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    137

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 057-1-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 66 centimeters (7.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 057-1-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414045; patchy - phpvsfiid 414045
    Bt2—66 to 106 centimeters (26.0 to 41.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 057-1-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414046; patchy - phpvsfiid 414046
    BC—106 to 153 centimeters (41.7 to 60.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/4) iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 057-1-4; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—153 to 203 centimeters (60.2 to 79.9 inches); variegated stratified sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 10 percent clay; massive; very friable; 2 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 2 percent medium distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/4) iron depletions in matrix; 12 percent by volume rounded quartzite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 057-1-5; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket