IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grover
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99AL037001-pgm
  • User Pedon ID: 99AL037001-pgm
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99AL-037-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24248
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024
  • 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: 32.8902778
  • Std. Longitude: -86.1561111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22 N
  • Range: 19 E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.0 mile north of Hissop, Coosa County, AL; 1,000 feet north and 1,200 feet west of the southeast corner of section 10, T. 22 N., R. 19 E.; USGS Rockford, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL037—Coosa County, Alabama
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, micaceous, subactive, 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 - Grover
  • PSC - 13 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grover
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy residuum weathered from schist, mica
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/3/1999 (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 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    13—58

    —-

    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

    7

    253

    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; 57 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume angular quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 9937-1-1; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—13 to 58 centimeters (5.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay loam; 45 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 4.0 coarse roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9937-1-2; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414250; patchy - phpvsfiid 414250
    BC—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) parachannery sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 20 percent by volume schist, mica fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9937-1-3; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 414251; patchy - phpvsfiid 414251
    C1—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); red (10R 5/6) sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 9937-1-4; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—127 to 203 centimeters (50.0 to 79.9 inches); variegated 60 percent red (10R 5/6) sandy loam; 73 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 6 percent clay; massive; very friable; 50 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # 9937-1-5; moist when described; observed in pit, small