IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fruithurst
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997AL123001
  • User Pedon ID: S1997AL123001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - AU
  • Lab Pedon # - S97AL-123-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24422
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 32.7803778
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8481694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 6.1 miles southwest of Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., AL; 950 feet south and 1,150 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 27, T. 21 N., R. 22 E.; USGS Dadeville, AL topographic quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: BfC—Badin-Tallapoosa-Fruithurst complex, 3 to 10 percent slopes
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL123—Tallapoosa
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-GRI—Griffin, Georgia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL123—Tallapoosa County, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fruithurst (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2021
  • Classifier - Stephon D Thomas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fruithurst
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/1997
  • 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: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent strong weathered schist, mica at 76cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/26/1997 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    76 - 127

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    18—76

    76—

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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

    5

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    213

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly loam; 42 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots and 6.0 coarse roots; 20 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97123-1-1
    BE—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) loam; 35 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97123-1-2
    Bt1—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay loam; 20 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97123-1-3. patchy - phpvsfiid 1126879; patchy - phpvsfiid 1126879
    Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silt loam; 14 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 10 percent by volume angular 2-20-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97123-1-4. patchy - phpvsfiid 1126878; patchy - phpvsfiid 1126878
    Cr—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); bedrock; low excavation difficulty; fragments.