IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boykin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005-AL007-Boykin-33E
  • User Pedon ID: 2005-AL007-Boykin-33E
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 49355
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - S05AL-007-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24161
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 32.9061111
  • Std. Longitude: -87.1154444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Centreville East Quad.
  • Map Unit: 33E—Maubila-Smithdale-Boykin complex, 5 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL007—Bibb
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL007—Bibb County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerome Langlinais and MLRA Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, active, thermic Arenic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boykin
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, active, thermic Arenic Paleudults
  • PSC - 78 to 129 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Marine Deposits
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Eoline Member/ Sand Facies member of the Coker formation in the Tuscaloosa group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13C
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Plant Association Name: Mixed Pines and Hardwoods
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 33
    • 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

    17

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    85.3

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    90

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    219

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    289

    Tuscaloosa FAA Airport

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loamy sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E1—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 2-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E2—38 to 79 centimeters (15.0 to 31.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—79 to 117 centimeters (31.1 to 46.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine ; 2 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—117 to 155 centimeters (46.1 to 61.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 2-5; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout and 15 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of reduced iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # 2-6; moist when described; observed in shovel slice