IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Barbary
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968LA093013
  • User Pedon ID: 68LA093013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968LA093013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3998
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39640
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 30.1258335
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7677765
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 19 miles W of LaPlace, 1.2 miles E of point where 61 crosses St. James-Ascension Parish line; 700 yards S of U.S. 61
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA093—St. James
  • MLRA: 131—Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA093—St. James Parish, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Warren L. Cockerham and Ray Dance
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, nonacid, hyperthermic Typic Hydraquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Barbary (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Barbary
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Ponding: frequent ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Woodland
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CUPRE

    NYSSA

    Cupressus

    Nyssa

    cypress

    tupelo

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    mollic epipedon

    0—30

    10—203

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    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

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    1524

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    20

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    Oa—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) muck; massive; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30618. common wood fragments and partly decomposed spanish moss; about 60% organic matter.
    A—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) muck, clay; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; massive; nonsticky; slightly fluid; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30619. flows easily between fingers when squeezed; fragments of partly decomposed wood; about 20% organic matter.
    Cg1—30 to 101 centimeters (11.8 to 39.8 inches); greenish gray (5GY 5/1) clay; massive; nonsticky; slightly fluid; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30620. flows easily between fingers when squeezed; about 5% organic matter.
    Cg2—101 to 167 centimeters (39.8 to 65.7 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; massive; nonsticky; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A30621. nearly liquid clay; underlain at 50 inches by a layer of undecomposed logs and fragments of wood.