IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bonifay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84AL011012-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 84AL011012-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S84AL-011-12
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24189
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 32.0277778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5947222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 24 E
  • Section: 12
  • Location Description: About 1 mile west of Pine Grove, Bullock Co., AL; 1,800 feet east and 1,950 feet north of the southwest corner of sec. 12, T. 12 N., R. 24 E.; USGS Midway, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL011—Bullock
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL011—Bullock County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Grossarenic plinthic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bonifay
  • PSC - 135 to 185 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bonifay
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, sandy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified over strongly weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1984 (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 - conifers
  • 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

    135—178

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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

    1

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    163

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 85 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8411-2-1
    E1—13 to 48 centimeters (5.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) ; 82 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8411-2-2
    E2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) ; 80 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; loose; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8411-2-3
    E3—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) ; 83 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; loose; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent medium faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) clay depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8411-2-4
    EB—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) ; 81 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8411-2-5
    Btv1—135 to 157 centimeters (53.1 to 61.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) ; 70 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium plinthite nodules and 25 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8411-2-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 434243; patchy - phpvsfiid 434243
    Btv2—157 to 178 centimeters (61.8 to 70.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) ; 55 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium plinthite nodules; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # 8411-2-7. patchy - phpvsfiid 434244; patchy - phpvsfiid 434244