IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Natchitoches
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981LA069005
  • User Pedon ID: 81LA069005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0274
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49118
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 32.0600014
  • Std. Longitude: -93.0250015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: .8 km W of the Chestnut Post Office 82 meters S of Parish road 479
  • Location Description: R.17W recorded on description changed to R6W
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA069—Natchitoches

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CLB and WLC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Natchitoches
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Natchitoches
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Vertic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
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    1A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01421. common medium roots
    1B21t—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior clay; 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots; , moist, clay films; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01422. common fine roots; few fine distinct 2.5YR46 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 214805; continuous - phpvsfiid 214805
    1B22t—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior clay; 30 percent olive (5Y 5/3) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01423. Slickensides that do not intersect.; few fine roots; many medium prominent 5Y53 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 214806; patchy - phpvsfiid 214806
    1C1—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior sandy clay; 11 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; firm; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01424. Common slickensides that do not intersect.; common fine distinct 5Y62 mottles
    1C2—84 to 160 centimeters (33.1 to 63.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior sandy clay; 11 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine distinct and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; firm; 11 percent medium carbonate concretions; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P01425. Second sample number 81P1426 112-160 cm.; common medium lime concretions concentrations; common fine distinct 2.5Y64 mottles; common fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles