IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goldsboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 91AL087007-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 91AL087007-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S91AL-087-7
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24323
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 32.4016667
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8600000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 23 E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: Macon County, AL; 2,200 feet east and 1,200 feet north of the southwest corner of section 27, T. 15 N., R. 23 E.; USGS Union Springs, 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: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive Aquic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goldsboro
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goldsboro
  • Classificaton Date - 5/15/1991
  • 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: 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: 5/15/1991 (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

    28—203

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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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    97

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) ; 76 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9187-7-1; observed in pit, small
    E—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) ; 71 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9187-7-2; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 57 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-7-3; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414395; patchy - phpvsfiid 414395
    Bt2—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) ; 56 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-7-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414396; patchy - phpvsfiid 414396
    Btg1—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) ; 55 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-7-5; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414397; patchy - phpvsfiid 414397
    Btg2—104 to 165 centimeters (40.9 to 65.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) ; 49 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9187-7-6; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414398; patchy - phpvsfiid 414398
    Btg3—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) ; 61 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4. Lab sample # 9187-7-7; observed in auger, bucket. patchy - phpvsfiid 414399; patchy - phpvsfiid 414399