IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cahaba
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86AL087001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 86AL087001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S86AL-087-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24307
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 32.4463889
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8955556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4, NE1/4, NW1/4
  • Location Description: E.V. Smith Research Station, Macon County, AL; USGS Shorter, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL087—Macon
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL087—Macon County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cahaba
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cahaba
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1986
  • 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: alluvial plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1986 (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 - close-grown 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

    28—112

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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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    67

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 62 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8687-1-1
    Bt1—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 48 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8687-1-2. continuous - phpvsfiid 414333; continuous - phpvsfiid 414333
    Bt2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 53 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8687-1-3. continuous - phpvsfiid 414334; continuous - phpvsfiid 414334
    Bt3—61 to 112 centimeters (24.0 to 44.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 58 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8687-1-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 414335; patchy - phpvsfiid 414335
    BC—112 to 157 centimeters (44.1 to 61.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8687-1-5
    C—157 to 190 centimeters (61.8 to 74.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) ; massive; very friable; 20 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 8687-1-6