IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beauregard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957LA011001
  • User Pedon ID: S1957LA011001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957LA011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3987
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39629
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 30.5816669
  • Std. Longitude: -93.2077789
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1.5 miles S of Longville on U.S. Hwy 171, 1.6 miles E on oilfield access road, 100 feet S of road; NW 1/4, SE 1/4
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA011—Beauregard
  • MLRA: 133B—Western Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA011—Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D.L. Fontenot, J. Allen, L.L. Loftin, Warren Cockerham, Francis Ezernack, and Marvin Lawson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Plinthaquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beauregard
  • PSC - 25 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARIST

    MOCE2

    MOCE2

    MUMO

    Aristida

    Morella cerifera

    Morella cerifera

    Muhlenbergia montana

    threeawn

    wax myrtle

    wax myrtle

    mountain muhly

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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

    2

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    45

    1346

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    19

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    A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 25 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30547. charcoal fragments common.
    A2—6 to 15 centimeters (2.4 to 5.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 10.0 and 0.5 tubular pores; 25 percent worm casts; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30548. few spots of pale brown (10YR 6/3) that does not appear to be due to reductions; boundary projects several inches into lower horizons, apparently in old root channels or animal burrows, in places.
    B1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silty clay loam; 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium prominent mottles; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 3.0 tubular pores; 37 percent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent worm casts; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30549. patchy - phpvsfiid 174738; patchy - phpvsfiid 174738
    B21t—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) and 25 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium and coarse mottles; weak fine angular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 15 percent clay films; 1 percent fine weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30550. some friable concretions red internally; clay skins scattered on aggregates.; patchy - phpvsfiid 174739; patchy - phpvsfiid 174739
    B&A1—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay loam; 10 percent red (10R 4/6) coarse and 10 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) medium mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 15 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30551. red seams included in soft friable concretionary material.; patchy - phpvsfiid 174740; patchy - phpvsfiid 174740
    B&A2—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay loam; 1 percent red (10R 4/6) coarse and 25 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) medium mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 15 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30552. patchy - phpvsfiid 174741; patchy - phpvsfiid 174741
    B22t—104 to 127 centimeters (40.9 to 50.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) and light gray (5Y 7/1) clay loam, clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) mottles; medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30553. silty clay loam masses interspersed with masses of clay; red masses firm to friable; gray masses plastic; red soil makes about two-thirds of the soil mass; red soil is more porous than the clay soil; no roots observed.
    B3—127 to 183 centimeters (50.0 to 72.0 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium and coarse mottles; massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A30554. few black streaks apparently organic matter at 152.4 cm; medium acid at 182.9 cm; brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay at 218.4 cm, practically unmottled.