IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nella
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 74AL055002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 74AL055002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S74AL-055-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24269
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4SW1/4
  • Location Description: Etowah County, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL055—Etowah 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 - Nella
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nella
  • Classificaton Date - 5/29/1974
  • 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: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/29/1974 (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 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) very gravelly loam; 47 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; 45 percent by volume 2-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-2-1
    Bt1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) gravelly loam; 44 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-2-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 417123; patchy - phpvsfiid 417123
    Bt2—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly loam; 32 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 75-100-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume 2-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 417124; patchy - phpvsfiid 417124
    Bt3—51 to 165 centimeters (20.1 to 65.0 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) loam; 36 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 75-100-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume 2-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 7455-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 417125; patchy - phpvsfiid 417125