IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cahaba
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86AL105001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 86AL105001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S86AL-105-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24365
  • 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: 32.5491667
  • Std. Longitude: -87.1894444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 8
  • Location Description: About 1 mile northwest of Suttle, AL; 3,745 feet south and 490 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 8, T. 18 N., R. 9 E.; USGS Summerfield, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL105—Perry
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL105—Perry County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cahaba
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cahaba
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/1986
  • 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: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/1986 (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 - 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

    23—114

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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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    50

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) ; 71 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8605-1-1
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) ; 61 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8605-1-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434271; patchy - phpvsfiid 434271
    Bt2—38 to 114 centimeters (15.0 to 44.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 56 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8605-1-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434272; patchy - phpvsfiid 434272
    C—114 to 165 centimeters (44.9 to 65.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) ; 73 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 14 percent clay; massive; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # 8605-1-4