IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colbert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70AL009004-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 70AL009004-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S70AL-009-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24167
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles northeast of Bangor, Blount County, AL.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL009—Blount County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colbert
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colbert
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from limestone, argillaceous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 137cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/4/1970 (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 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    137 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    10—132

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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

    5

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    247

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); 18 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7009-4-1
    Bt1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 8 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 53 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7009-4-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434172; patchy - phpvsfiid 434172
    Bt2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 9 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 58 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) iron depletions and 1 percent fine distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7009-4-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434173; patchy - phpvsfiid 434173
    Bt3—61 to 132 centimeters (24.0 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 10 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 53 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 2 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-4-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434174; patchy - phpvsfiid 434174
    BC—132 to 137 centimeters (52.0 to 53.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4); 11 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 38 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent pressure faces; 25 percent medium distinct pinkish gray (5YR 7/2) iron depletions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-4-5
    R—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); extremely hard; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments. Lab sample # 7009-4-6