IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hamblen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71AL009002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 71AL009002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S71AL-009-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24174
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 2.1 miles southwest of Remlap and 0.15 mile southeast of AL Hwy. 75, Blount County, AL.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL009—Blount County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Fluvaquentic eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamblen
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lobelville
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sandstone & shale
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: natural levee
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/4/1971 (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 - hayland
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    15—135

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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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    220

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); 43 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 10-15-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-2-1
    BA—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); 41 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-2-2
    Bw1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); 38 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-2-3
    Bw2—51 to 63 centimeters (20.1 to 24.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 37 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 5 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-2-4
    Bw3—63 to 102 centimeters (24.8 to 40.2 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and pale brown (10YR 6/3); 38 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7109-2-5
    Bg—102 to 135 centimeters (40.2 to 53.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2); 32 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings and 10 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7109-2-6
    Cg—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1); 29 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 24 percent clay; massive; friable; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 10-15-25 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # 7109-2-7