IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loring
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956MS049002
  • User Pedon ID: S1956MS049002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4801
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41495
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 32.1646233
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3312073
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: Northeast quarter of northeast quarter
  • Location Description: 12 miles southwest of Jackson, Mississippi on the Randolph Smith farm.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS049—Hinds
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-GRM—Greenwood, Mississippi
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS049—Hinds County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Kubota and V. H. McGehee
  • 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 - 4/18/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3G-59
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    63 - 132

    - 69 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—13

    13—132

    63—132

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    —119—

    —69—
    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

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36443
    E—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36444
    Bt1—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36445
    Bt2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very coarse roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36446
    Bt3—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36447
    Bt4—46 to 63 centimeters (18.1 to 24.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 1 percent manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36448
    Btx/E—63 to 79 centimeters (24.8 to 31.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; black stains and coats on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36449
    Btx1—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36450
    Btx2—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 10 percent black stains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36451
    BC1—132 to 165 centimeters (52.0 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; massive parts to moderate very coarse columnar parts to moderate very coarse prismatic; friable; 21.0 roots; 75 percent black stains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36452
    BC2—165 to 196 centimeters (65.0 to 77.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) faint mottles; massive parts to coarse platy; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36453