IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mooreville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018AL023021
  • User Pedon ID: S2018AL023021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N2058
  • 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: 31.8344333
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1703139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, SW 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: J. Lene, J. Hancock
  • 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: fine-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • 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_021
  • 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 - 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

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    cambic horizon

    0—9

    9—100

    9—68

    9—100

    —9—

    —52—

    —59—

    —91—

    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

    53.9

    0

    1429

    18

    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face clay loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; moderately hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; semideformable; common (4.0) medium roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.5) coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06227; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—9 to 26 centimeters (3.5 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; few (0.5) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout and few (0.5) coarse roots throughout; 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06228; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—26 to 68 centimeters (10.2 to 26.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face sandy clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 20 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 20 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06229; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1653103; patchy - phpvsfiid 1653103
    Bg—68 to 100 centimeters (26.8 to 39.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 40 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 18N06230; very moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1653105; patchy - phpvsfiid 1653105