IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95AL087003-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 95AL087003-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S95AL-087-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24326
  • 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: 32.3919444
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9255556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 N
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • Location Description: Shorter, Macon County, AL; about 0.2 mile west of the old school building; 420 feet north and 2,600 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 2, T. 16 N., R. 21 E.; USGS Shorter, 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, subactive Typic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bama
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orangeburg
  • Classificaton Date - 2/7/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from metamorphic, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • 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: 2/7/1995 (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

    argillic horizon

    36—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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    107

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2); 70 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume well rounded ironstone nodules fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9587-3-1; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); 73 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume well rounded ironstone nodules fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9587-3-2; observed in pit, small
    EB—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); 61 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume well rounded ironstone nodules fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9587-3-3; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8); 50 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume very angular ironstone nodules fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9587-3-4; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414410; patchy - phpvsfiid 414410
    Bt2—48 to 91 centimeters (18.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6); 49 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume well rounded ironstone nodules fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9587-3-5; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414411; patchy - phpvsfiid 414411
    Bt3—91 to 168 centimeters (35.8 to 66.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6); 52 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 9587-3-6; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414412; patchy - phpvsfiid 414412
    Bt4—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6); 56 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent coarse distinct red (2.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # 9587-3-7; observed in shovel slice. patchy - phpvsfiid 414413; patchy - phpvsfiid 414413