Typical pedon (Figure 118).
Typical pedon.—A specific pedon description chosen to represent a map unit component as it occurs in a soil survey area. It is used in the correlation process to classify, name, and interpret the component. The pedon description, along with information about the soil’s overall range in characteristics, landscape setting, and other pertinent information, is included in the soil survey publication and/or database. The typical pedon is not a composite description based on a collection of pedon descriptions, but rather it is a real pedon with a physical location that can be revisited (also called a type location). See correlation, soil.
Figure 118.—The typical pedon of a soil series represents the soil as mapped within a particular soil survey area. Differing typical pedons may be identified in numerous soil survey areas across the series geographic area of extent or they may be shared across soil survey area boundaries. For example, Cecil soil (fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults) has been correlated in many soil surveys from Alabama to Virginia. Each typical pedon may have a slightly different description, but all are within the range of characteristics for the Cecil series unless noted.
Typical pedon (Figure 118).
Typical pedon.—A specific pedon description chosen to represent a map unit component as it occurs in a soil survey area. It is used in the correlation process to classify, name, and interpret the component. The pedon description, along with information about the soil’s overall range in characteristics, landscape setting, and other pertinent information, is included in the soil survey publication and/or database. The typical pedon is not a composite description based on a collection of pedon descriptions, but rather it is a real pedon with a physical location that can be revisited (also called a type location). See correlation, soil.
Figure 118.—The typical pedon of a soil series represents the soil as mapped within a particular soil survey area. Differing typical pedons may be identified in numerous soil survey areas across the series geographic area of extent or they may be shared across soil survey area boundaries. For example, Cecil soil (fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults) has been correlated in many soil surveys from Alabama to Virginia. Each typical pedon may have a slightly different description, but all are within the range of characteristics for the Cecil series unless noted.