IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vaiden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955MS101002
  • User Pedon ID: S1955MS101002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4843
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41532
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 32.3061111
  • Std. Longitude: -89.2383333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1-1/4 miles south of Lawrence, Mississippi, approximately 50 feet west of Mississippi Highway 505.
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS101—Newton
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS101—Newton County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, thermic Aquic Dystruderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaiden
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2019
  • Classifier - Chris Hatcher
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaiden
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, smectitic, thermic Aquic Dystruderts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1955
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    0—10

    10—152

    10—152

    —10—

    —142—

    —142—
    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

    2

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    145

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    335

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36756
    Btss1—10 to 46 centimeters (3.9 to 18.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine faint and 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36757
    Btss2—46 to 117 centimeters (18.1 to 46.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) clay; 21 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36758
    Btss3—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; very firm, very plastic; 21 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) iron concretions; carbonate nodules; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36759. This layer rests upon partially weathered chalk.