IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dickson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70AL077007-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 70AL077007-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S70AL-077-7
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24294
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.2 miles southeast of Anderson, Lauderdale County, AL.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL077—Lauderdale County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Glossic fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dickson
  • PSC - 13 to 63 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 - 8/14/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, fine-silty alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified over strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from limestone, cherty
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/14/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    fragipan

    13—91

    66—91

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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

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3); 8 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7077-7-1
    Bt—13 to 53 centimeters (5.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 6 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7077-7-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 417159; patchy - phpvsfiid 417159
    E/B—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3); 6 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; 2 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7077-7-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 417161; patchy - phpvsfiid 417161
    Btx—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 5 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 36 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm; brittle; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7077-7-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 417162; patchy - phpvsfiid 417162
    2B't—91 to 157 centimeters (35.8 to 61.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 7 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 44 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions; 10 percent by volume 2-25-50 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # 7077-7-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 417163; patchy - phpvsfiid 417163