LOCATION FREEMANVILLE AL+GAEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Plinthic Kandiudults
TYPICAL PEDON: Freemanville fine sandy loam--forested. (Colors are for moist soil.)
A--0 to 6 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots; many medium hard nodules of ironstone; medium acid; clear wavy boundary. (3 to 6 inches thick)
E--6 to 10 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots; many medium hard nodules of ironstone; medium acid; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 5 inches thick)
BE--10 to 17 inches; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many fine and medium roots; many medium hard nodules of ironstone; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (0 to 11 inches thick)
Btc--17 to 37 inches; red (2.5YR 5/6) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; many medium hard nodules of ironstone; common patchy clay films on faces of most peds; strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (12 to 23 inches thick)
Btv1--37 to 49 inches; red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; few fine distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) and few fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many medium hard nodules of ironstone; common patchy clay films on faces of most peds; 5 to 8 percent plinthite nodules; very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. (6 to 22 inches thick)
Btv2--49 to 72 inches; mottled red (2.5YR 4/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common medium hard nodules of ironstone; common patchy clay films; 12 to 15 percent plinthite nodules; very strongly acid.
TYPE LOCATION: Escambia County, Alabama; 0.25 mile south of Magnolia church and 50 feet east of road in the SW1/4NW1/4NW1/4SE1/4 sec. 1, T. 2 N., R. 7 E.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness is more than 60 inches. Depth to horizons with more than 5 percent plinthite ranges from 26 to 50 inches. Nodules of ironstone range from 10 to 50 percent by volume in the A horizon and from 5 to 35 percent in the B horizon. Size of the nodules of ironstone ranges from 2 mm to 3 cm. Reaction is medium acid or strongly acid in the A, E, and BE horizons, except where lime has been added; and is strongly acid or very strongly acid in the Btc and Btv horizons.
The A or Ap horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 3 to 5, and chroma of 1 to 4. Texture is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, or their gravelly analogues.
The E horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 to 6. Texture is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, or their gravelly analogues.
The BE horizon, where present, has hue of 2.5YR to 10YR, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 6 or 8. It is loam, sandy clay loam, clay loam, or their gravelly analogues.
The upper part of the Bt horizon has hue of 5YR or 2.5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 6 or 8. The lower part has this same range in color or is mottled in shades of brown, yellow, and red. Mottles of chroma 2 or less are below a depth of about 40 inches. Texture is clay, sandy clay, or clay.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Carnegie, Sunsweet, and Varina series in the same family. Carnegie and Sunsweet soils have horizons with more than 5 percent plinthite at depths of less than 26 inches. Varina soils have Bt horizons in hue yellower than 5YR and have less than 5 percent nodules of ironstone in their sola.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Nearly level to sloping uplands of the Coastal Plains. Slopes range from 0 to 12 percent but are more commonly 0 to 8 percent. The regolith is loamy and clayey marine sediments. The climate is warm and humid. Near the type location the mean annual temperature is about 66 degrees F, and the average annual rainfall is about 62 inches.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Dothan, Malbis, Orangeburg, and Tifton soils on slightly higher positions. These soils have a fine-loamy particle-size control section.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained. Runoff is slow or medium. Permeability is moderate above plinthite horizons and moderately slow for horizons with 5 percent plinthite or more.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for crops, pasture, and forest. Crops commonly grown are cotton, corn, soybeans, truck crops, and small grain. Wooded areas are in pine, oak, and dogwood.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: South Alabama and Georgia. This soil is moderately extensive.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Auburn, Alabama
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Escambia County, Alabama; 1969.
REMARKS: Previously included in the Tifton series. This revision (6/89) changes the classification from Plinthic Paleudults to Plinthic Kandiudults in recognition of the low activity clay of the kandic horizon.
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - the zone from the surface of the soil to a depth of 17 inches (A E and BE horizons).
Kandic horizon - the zone from approximately 17 to 72 inches (Btc, Btv1, and Btv2).
Plinthic features - the zone with 5 percent or more plinthite from approximately 37 to 72 inches (Btv1 and Btv2 horizons).