IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Townley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 74AL055007-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 74AL055007-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S74AL-055-7
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24273
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4NE1/4
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL055—Etowah County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Townley
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Enders
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from shale, acid
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered shale, acid at 127cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1974 (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 - urban and built-up
  • 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, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    127 - 152

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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    18—127

    127—

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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

    10

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; 21 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7455-7-1
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay; 9 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 51 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of reduced iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-7-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 417138; patchy - phpvsfiid 417138
    Bt2—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) channery silty clay; 3 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 54 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-7-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 417139; patchy - phpvsfiid 417139
    Bt3—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery clay; 10 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 53 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-7-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 417140; patchy - phpvsfiid 417140
    BC—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and light gray (10YR 7/2) very channery silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 39 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7455-7-5
    Cr—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; extremely firm; low excavation difficulty; fragments. Lab sample # 7455-7-6