IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mooreville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018AL023003
  • User Pedon ID: S2018AL023003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N2046
  • User Project ID: LENO_008_NEON
  • Project Name: Lenoir Landing
  • Print Date: 4/22/2026

    • 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: 31.8081944
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1883333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4, NW 1/4
  • Map Unit: UrB—Urbo-Mooreville-Una complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Alabama
  • County: AL023—Choctaw
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MER—Meridian, Mississippi
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AL023—Choctaw County, Alabama
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31088-G2—Coffeeville Lock And Dam, Alabama

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Williams, J. Velazquez, S. Depew, M. Singer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: ecological site data
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mooreville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2018
  • Classifier - J.Velazquez
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Qalt formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - LENO_003
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 225
  • Plot Baseline Length - 2
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center or pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - J. Velazquez, M. Williams, S. Depew, M. Singer

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: M. Williams, J. Velazquez, S. Depew, M. Singer
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    slickensides

    0—12

    12—100

    48—100

    48—100

    82—100

    —12—

    —88—

    —52—

    —52—

    —18—
    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

    0.5

    —

    —

    11

    —

    270

    1429

    —

    —

    18

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; semideformable; common (4.0) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06184; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—12 to 48 centimeters (4.7 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N06185; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—48 to 82 centimeters (18.9 to 32.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; few (0.5) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries between peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N06186; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bss—82 to 100 centimeters (32.3 to 39.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; deformable; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 3 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries between peds and 25 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries between peds; fragments. Lab sample # 18N06187; moist when described; observed in pit, small