IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stelltown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003AR109008
  • User Pedon ID: S03AR109008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0322
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16265
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 34.0534439
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4693604
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 23 West
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4,NE1/4,NW1/4
  • Map Unit: 427—Stelltown fine sandy loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Arkansas
  • County: AR109—Pike
  • MLRA: 135B—Cretaceous Western Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AR109—Pike County, Arkansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Benham, Rhodes, Ross, Olson, Mersiovsky, Kichler, Winfrey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Stelltown
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harleston
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy marine sediments
  • Landform: Cretaceous Western Coastal Plain upland slope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Tokio formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: clear cut
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

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    74—183

    29—-110

    0—14—20

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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

    4

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    134

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01828; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Field Soil Sample Number S03AR109-8-1
    E—15 to 29 centimeters (5.9 to 11.4 inches); sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions and 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent medium faint olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01829; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Field Soil Sample Number S03AR109-8-2
    Bt1—29 to 69 centimeters (11.4 to 27.2 inches); sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct clay films on bottom faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01830; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 268334; patchy - phpvsfiid 268334
    Bt2—69 to 106 centimeters (27.2 to 41.7 inches); sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on bottom faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N01831; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Field Soil Sample Number S03AR109-8-4; patchy - phpvsfiid 268335; patchy - phpvsfiid 268335
    Bt3—106 to 196 centimeters (41.7 to 77.2 inches); loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent distinct clay films on bottom faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 04N01832, 04N01833; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Field Soil Sample Number S03AR109-8-5&6. This horizon was split at 151 cm for sampling purposes.; patchy - phpvsfiid 268336; patchy - phpvsfiid 268336