IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Savannah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83AL091015-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 83AL091015-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S83AL-091-15
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24337
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 32.4333333
  • Std. Longitude: -87.9333333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 1 E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 4 miles northwest of Jefferson, Marengo County, AL; 700 feet south and 100 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 19, T. 17 N., R. 1 E.; USGS Jefferson, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL091—Marengo
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL091—Marengo County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Savannah
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Savannah
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/1983 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    71 - 122

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

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    18—165

    71—122

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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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    37

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 67 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8391-5-1
    Ap2—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) ; 48 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8391-5-2
    Bt1—18 to 61 centimeters (7.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) ; 42 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8391-5-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434372; patchy - phpvsfiid 434372
    Bt2—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 53 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8391-5-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434373; patchy - phpvsfiid 434373
    Btx—71 to 122 centimeters (28.0 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) ; 57 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm; brittle; low excavation difficulty; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 30 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8391-5-5. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 434374; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 434374
    B't—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); variegated yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light gray (10YR 7/1) ; 61 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 8391-5-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 434375; patchy - phpvsfiid 434375