IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972AL097008
  • User Pedon ID: S1972AL097008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S72AL-097-8
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24357
  • 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: 30.5302778
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2258333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 S
  • Range: 3 W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4, NE1/4, NE1/4, NE1/4
  • Location Description: Mobile County, AL; 1.5 miles north of Irvington and 0.5 mile east on road, then 150 feet south; photo CPU-1HH-80.
  • Map Unit: 4—Bama sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL097—Mobile
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-LOX—Loxley, Alabama
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL097—Mobile County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30088-E2—Theodore, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bama (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ruston
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: strongly weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits derived from sedimentary, unspecified
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/1972 (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 - crop trees
  • 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—188

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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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    91

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 7297-8-1
    E—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-8-2
    BE—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-8-3
    Bt1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-8-4
    Bt2—56 to 104 centimeters (22.0 to 40.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-8-5
    Bt3—104 to 173 centimeters (40.9 to 68.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 7297-8-6
    Bt4—173 to 188 centimeters (68.1 to 74.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) sandy clay loam; 1 percent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # 7297-8-7