IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Decatur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77AL033003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 77AL033003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S77AL-033-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24243
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NE1/4
  • Location Description: Near the Muscle Shoals Airport; about 0.75 mile east of the junction of AL Hwy. 133 and Avalon Avenue, 300 feet south of the road; Colbert County, AL; site 1, atlas sheet 25.
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL033—Colbert County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Rhodic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Decatur
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Decatur
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey alluvium derived from limestone, argillaceous
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: ridge
  • 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: 3/21/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    8—183

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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

    2

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4); 27 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 77033-3-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4); 17 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 77033-3-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6); 18 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 77033-3-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414220; patchy - phpvsfiid 414220
    Bt2—41 to 183 centimeters (16.1 to 72.0 inches); dark red (10R 3/6); 21 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 77033-3-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414221; patchy - phpvsfiid 414221