IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grenada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981MS049002
  • User Pedon ID: 81MS049002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0291
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49135
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 32.2055550
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5180588
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Treatment 2 Rep. 3 of the 1980 F. Whisler Tillage Plots at the Brown Loam Exp. Station near Raymond MS.
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS049—Hinds
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. F. Ratliff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Glossic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grenada
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grenada
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Glossic Fragiudalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; massive; hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P01491. Few pockets of partially decomposed organic matter.; many fine and medium roots
    1A12—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 37 percent , moist, black stains on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P01492. common black stains surface features on faces of peds; common fine and medium roots
    1B21—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01493. common fine roots; few fine distinct 5YR56 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 214809; patchy - phpvsfiid 214809
    1B22—61 to 69 centimeters (24.0 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01494. A2 material makes up about 20 percent of the horizon and is pale brown 10YR 6/3 and light gray 10YR 7/2.; few soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common fine and medium roots
    1Bx1—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; weak medium platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01495. Brown parts are brittle and compact in places gray parts slightly more silty than brown parts.; few soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine roots
    1Bx2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P01496. Estimated 10 percent light gray 10YR 7/2 silt seams brown parts are compact and slightly brittle in places.