IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loring
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1952MS033002
  • User Pedon ID: S1952MS033002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4799
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41493
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 3/4 mile southwest of Cublake, Mississippi.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS033—DeSoto
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS033—DeSoto County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.J. McNutt and A.H. Hasty
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loring
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - LORING
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/1952
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/20/1952 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    61 - 107

    - 46 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—10

    10—107

    61—107

    —10—

    —97—

    —46—
    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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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A36425. Probably been limed.
    Bt1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A36426
    Bt2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A36427
    Bt3—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A36428
    Btx1—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) silt loam; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) distinct and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) distinct mottles; weak medium granular structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A36429. Beginning of pan.
    Btx2—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and light gray (10YR 7/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A36430. This is a pan layer.
    Btx3—97 to 107 centimeters (38.2 to 42.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and light gray (10YR 7/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A36431