IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010AL003001
  • User Pedon ID: S2010AL003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 30.5238333
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6979722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 S
  • Range: 11 E
  • Section: 32
  • Location Description: about 2.1 miles south of Robertsdale, Alabama on Highway 59, 0.6 mile east on County Road 48, 60 feet north in cropland, Baldwin County, Alabama
  • Map Unit: MgA—Magnolia fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL003—Baldwin
  • MLRA: 133C—Gulf Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30087-E6—Robertsdale, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerome Langlinais, Joey Koptis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bama
  • PSC - 28 to cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Magnolia
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy marine deposits derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landform: broad ridge marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Citronelle Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/23/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: reduced tillage cropland
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—100

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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

    1

    200

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    45

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    2180

    Koptis Farms

    SCAN
    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed fine sandy loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; many (10.0) very fine roots throughout and many (15.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) crushed fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) crushed sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent prominent reddish black (2.5YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and 10 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; ; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—84 to 150 centimeters (33.1 to 59.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) crushed sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; few (0.8) very fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented ironstone nodules throughout; fragments; gradual boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—150 to 203 centimeters (59.1 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) crushed sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented ironstone nodules throughout; fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small