IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Toccoa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL087001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL087001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-087-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24314
  • 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: 32.4611111
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8819444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Natural levee of the Tallapoosa River, near Franklin, Macon County, AL; USGS LaPlace, 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid Typic udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Toccoa
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ochlockonee
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slightly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from metamorphic, unspecified
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: natural levee
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/24/1989 (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

    ochric epipedon

    0—43

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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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    63

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 72 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8987-1-1
    A—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) ; 64 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8987-1-2
    C—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 80 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 6 percent clay; massive; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8987-1-3
    Bwb1—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) ; 48 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8987-1-4
    Bwb2—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 65 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments and 5 percent by volume charcoal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8987-1-5
    Bwb3—109 to 150 centimeters (42.9 to 59.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 35 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions; 25 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments and 5 percent by volume charcoal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8987-1-6
    C—150 to 165 centimeters (59.1 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) ; 84 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 3 percent clay; massive; very friable; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume well rounded quartz fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # 8987-1-7