IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mooreville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018AL023011
  • User Pedon ID: S2018AL023011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N2050
  • 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: 31.8258361
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1830861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, NE 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jessica R. Lene
  • 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 - 8/14/2018
  • Classifier - J. Lene
  • 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: deranged
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Qalt formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - LENO_011
  • DSP Plot ID - SE
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 135
  • Plot Baseline Length - 2
  • Plot Width - 20
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center or pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - JRL

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: JRL
  • 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 concentrations

    0—5

    5—100

    16—100

    —5—

    —95—

    —84—
    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

    —

    —

    28

    —

    300

    1429

    —

    —

    18

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, noncoherent, very sticky, very plastic; semideformable; common (4.0) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N06198; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, noncoherent, very sticky, very plastic; deformable; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06199; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1653108; patchy - phpvsfiid 1653108
    Bw2—16 to 64 centimeters (6.3 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm, noncoherent, very sticky, very plastic; deformable; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 2 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume flat rounded indurated 2-5-20 millimeter quartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06200; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1653109; patchy - phpvsfiid 1653109
    Bw3—64 to 100 centimeters (25.2 to 39.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face clay loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; moderately hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; common (2.0) fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint pressure faces on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 18N06201; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1653107; patchy - phpvsfiid 1653107