IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hartsells
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71AL009003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 71AL009003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S71AL-009-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24175
  • Print Date: 4/20/2026

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 0.3 mile north of New Hope Methodist Church, 40 feet west of road, Blount County, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL009—Blount County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hartsells
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hartsells
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy residuum weathered from sandstone & shale
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 94cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    94 - 152

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

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    25—84

    94—

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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

    4

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    343

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2); 49 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 10-25-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-3-1
    E—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); 42 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 10-25-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-3-2
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 42 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 10-25-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-3-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434199; patchy - phpvsfiid 434199
    Bt2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6); 26 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 10-25-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7109-3-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434200; patchy - phpvsfiid 434200
    B/Cr—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 50 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7109-3-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 434201; patchy - phpvsfiid 434201
    R—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); extremely hard; high excavation difficulty; fragments. Lab sample # 7109-3-6