IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ocilla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89AL105002-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 89AL105002-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S89AL-105-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24378
  • 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: 32.5936111
  • Std. Longitude: -87.2619444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 N
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4, SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.7 miles northeast of Vilula, Perry Co., AL; 1,100 feet north and 1,950 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 34, T. 19 N., R. 8 E.; USGS Marion South, 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: Loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Aquic arenic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ocilla
  • PSC - 66 to 116 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ocilla
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, sandy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified and/or strongly weathered, loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/1989 (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

    66—165

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    Setting and Climate
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    62

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) ; 82 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume charcoal fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8905-2-1
    E1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) ; 80 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8905-2-2
    E2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) ; 81 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent medium faint pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 8905-2-3
    Bt1—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) ; 66 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium plinthite nodules and 10 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions and 10 percent medium prominent 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8905-2-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 434322; patchy - phpvsfiid 434322
    Bt2—94 to 147 centimeters (37.0 to 57.9 inches); 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) ; 61 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium plinthite nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 8905-2-5. patchy - phpvsfiid 434323; patchy - phpvsfiid 434323
    Bt3—147 to 165 centimeters (57.9 to 65.0 inches); 40 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 10 percent 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) ; 69 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 8905-2-6. patchy - phpvsfiid 434324; patchy - phpvsfiid 434324