IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bowie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987LA085001
  • User Pedon ID: 87LA085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0402
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59697
  • 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: 31.7938881
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6250000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 38
  • PLSS Details: .25 mile N of Mitchell, 300 feet E of LA. HWY, 483, Spanish land Grant
  • Location Description: map sheet number 8.
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA085—Sabine
  • MLRA: 133B—Western Coastal Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Guillory, C.M.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Plinthic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bowie
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bowie
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Plinthic Paleudult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    38—158

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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

    3

    —

    —

    107

    —

    90

    123

    —

    —

    17

    26

    8

    18

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    165892

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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02082; moist when described;. many fine and medium roots throughout
    1E—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior fine sandy loam; 11 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine faint mottles; very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02083; moist when described;. Thin ironstone layer between E & B .25 inch thick.; many fine and medium roots throughout; common fine faint 10YR66 mottles
    1Bt1—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 30 percent fine spherical iron concretions and 30 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02084; moist when described;. many fine iron concretions concentrations; many fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; many fine and medium roots between peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 232064; patchy - phpvsfiid 232064
    1Btv1—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.5 fine roots between peds; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 55 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent medium irregular plinthite nodules and 30 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02085; moist when described;. common medium plinthite segregations concentrations; many fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; many clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; many fine roots between peds; many medium distinct 5YR56 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 221834; continuous - phpvsfiid 221834
    1Btv2—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior sandy clay loam; 11 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 11 percent medium irregular plinthite nodules; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02086; moist when described;. common medium plinthite segregations concentrations; few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; common medium prominent 2.5YR48 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 221835; patchy - phpvsfiid 221835
    1Bt2—114 to 158 centimeters (44.9 to 62.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) coarse prominent and 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) coarse distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P02087; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; many very fine and fine roots between peds; many coarse prominent 2.5YR48 mottles; many coarse distinct 10YR72 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 221836; patchy - phpvsfiid 221836