IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Memphis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956MS149001
  • User Pedon ID: S1956MS149001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4809
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41503
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 32.4515610
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7395477
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 10 miles northeast of Vicksburg, Mississippi in northwest quarter of southwest quarter
  • Location Description: photo AVM-2G-184.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS149—Warren
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-GRM—Greenwood, Mississippi
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS149—Warren County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Kubota and V. H. McGehee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Typic Hapludalfs
  • 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 #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/2017
  • Classifier - R. Stout Evans
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEMPHIS
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AVM-2G184
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—5

    5—165

    —5—

    —160—
    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

    6

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36503
    Bt1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36504
    Bt2—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 75 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, black stains on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36505
    Bt3—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21 percent fine worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36506
    Bt4—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36507
    Bt5—99 to 135 centimeters (39.0 to 53.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36508
    Bt6—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36509
    C1—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; massive; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine and medium pores; 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36510
    C2—203 to 234 centimeters (79.9 to 92.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36511