IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL105002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL105002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-105-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24371
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 32.5380556
  • Std. Longitude: -87.1463889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.9 miles east of Suttle, Perry Co., AL; 2,550 feet south and 2,030 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 14, T. 19 N., R. 9 E.; USGS Summerfield, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL105—Perry
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL105—Perry County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bama
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bama
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/1987
  • 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: upland
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/23/1987 (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

    13—173

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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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    93

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) ; 73 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume charcoal fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8705-2-1
    Bt1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) ; 55 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume charcoal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8705-2-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434294; patchy - phpvsfiid 434294
    Bt2—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 53 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume charcoal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8705-2-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434295; patchy - phpvsfiid 434295
    Bt3—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 56 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8705-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434296; patchy - phpvsfiid 434296
    Bt4—86 to 135 centimeters (33.9 to 53.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) ; 61 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8705-2-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 434297; patchy - phpvsfiid 434297
    Bt5—135 to 173 centimeters (53.1 to 68.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) ; 65 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 18 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 8705-2-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 434298; patchy - phpvsfiid 434298