IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leadvale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70AL009008-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 70AL009008-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S70AL-009-8
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24170
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: Blount County, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL009—Blount County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leadvale
  • 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 - Dickson
  • Classificaton Date - 4/30/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, fine-silty colluvium derived from sandstone & shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered sandstone and shale at 107cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/30/1970 (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

    fragipan

    bedrock, paralithic

    noncoherent

    moderately coherent

    61 - 107

    107 - 152

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

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    10—107

    61—107

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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

    1

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    183

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2); 21 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7009-8-1
    Bt1—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6); 15 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-8-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434185; patchy - phpvsfiid 434185
    Bt2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); 15 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions and 1 percent fine dark brown (10YR 3/3) iron-manganese masses and 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-8-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434186; patchy - phpvsfiid 434186
    Btx—61 to 107 centimeters (24.0 to 42.1 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light gray (10YR 7/1) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); 23 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium very dark brown (10YR 2/2) iron-manganese concretions; 2 percent by volume 10-15-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7009-8-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434187; patchy - phpvsfiid 434187
    Cr—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); extremely firm; low excavation difficulty; fragments. Lab sample # 7009-8-5