IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Luverne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87AL105003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 87AL105003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S87AL-105-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24372
  • 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: 32.6772222
  • Std. Longitude: -87.1716667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4, SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 2.9 miles east of Sprott, Perry Co., AL; 450 feet north and 300 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 28, T. 20 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, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Luverne
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Luverne
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, clayey marine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified over strongly weathered, loamy marine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/29/1987 (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

    8—109

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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

    15

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    130

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 76 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8705-3-1
    Bt1—8 to 53 centimeters (3.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) ; 18 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 62 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8705-3-2. patchy - phpvsfiid 434299; patchy - phpvsfiid 434299
    Bt2—53 to 89 centimeters (20.9 to 35.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 47 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume ironstone nodules fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8705-3-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 434300; patchy - phpvsfiid 434300
    BC—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 71 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8705-3-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434301; patchy - phpvsfiid 434301
    C—109 to 157 centimeters (42.9 to 61.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) ; 74 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 24 percent clay; massive; friable; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # 8705-3-5