IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 72AL029003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 72AL029003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S72AL-029-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24231
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 16 S
  • Range: 12 E
  • Section: 6
  • Location Description: About 0.75 mile southeast of Oak Grove Church, Cleburne County, AL; photo CPK-1EE-96.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL029—Cleburne
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL029—Cleburne County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holston
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holston
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sandstone & shale
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/1972 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    13—165

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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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    300

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 44 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7229-3-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 50 centimeters (5.1 to 19.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 32 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7229-3-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414199; patchy - phpvsfiid 414199
    Bt2—50 to 84 centimeters (19.7 to 33.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) ; 36 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7229-3-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414200; patchy - phpvsfiid 414200
    Bt3—84 to 165 centimeters (33.1 to 65.0 inches); variegated 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 5 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) ; 31 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 7229-3-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414201; patchy - phpvsfiid 414201