IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blanton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06AL041005-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 06AL041005-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S06AL-041-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24264
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 31.7063889
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3319444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8 N
  • Range: 17 E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: Bates Farm, Rutledge, Crenshaw Co., AL; USGS Luverne, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL041—Crenshaw
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL041—Crenshaw County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Grossarenic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blanton
  • PSC - 122 to 172 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blanton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/14/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, sandy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified over strongly 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: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/14/2006 (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 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    122—220

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    Setting and Climate
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    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    113

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 79 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0641-5-1
    AE—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 79 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0641-5-2
    E1—30 to 47 centimeters (11.8 to 18.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 77 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0641-5-3
    E2—47 to 72 centimeters (18.5 to 28.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) ; 78 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0641-5-4
    E3—72 to 107 centimeters (28.3 to 42.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) ; 76 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0641-5-5
    E4—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) ; 81 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent medium faint pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) iron depletions and 25 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0641-5-6
    Bt1—122 to 157 centimeters (48.0 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 68 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0641-5-7. patchy - phpvsfiid 417081; patchy - phpvsfiid 417081
    Bt2—157 to 174 centimeters (61.8 to 68.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) ; 63 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) iron depletions and 5 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0641-5-8. patchy - phpvsfiid 417082; patchy - phpvsfiid 417082
    Bt3—174 to 190 centimeters (68.5 to 74.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) ; 65 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2) iron depletions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 0641-5-9. patchy - phpvsfiid 417083; patchy - phpvsfiid 417083
    Bt4—190 to 220 centimeters (74.8 to 86.6 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) ; 68 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # 0641-5-0. patchy - phpvsfiid 417084; patchy - phpvsfiid 417084