IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sumter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MS025001
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MS025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4834
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41523
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 33.6051445
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5378189
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17S
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: Northeast quarter of the northwest quarter
  • Location Description: T20N, R7E recorded on description changed to T17S R7E (meridian choctaw to chickasaw)
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS025—Clay
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS025—Clay County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. C. Carter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, carbonatic, thermic Rendollic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sumter
  • PSC - 25 to 56 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 - Sumter
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, carbonatic, thermic Rendollic Eutrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/1958
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    bedrock, paralithic

    very strongly coherent

    0 - 56

    - 56 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—14

    14—56

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    —32—
    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

    3

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    122

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36700; moist when described;
    Bk1—14 to 24 centimeters (5.5 to 9.4 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1) silty clay; 21 percent white (2.5Y 8/1) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3) dark concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36701; moist when described;
    Bk2—24 to 47 centimeters (9.4 to 18.5 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1) silty clay; 21 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) fine distinct and 21 percent light gray (5Y 7/1) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A36702; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1733678; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1733678
    Bk3—47 to 56 centimeters (18.5 to 22.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) silty clay; 1 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) fine distinct and 1 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) fine distinct mottles; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent fine brown (10YR 4/3) dark concretions; 3 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A36703; moist when described;
    Ck—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8); hard when dry, extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36704; moist when described;
    Cr—86 to 137 centimeters (33.9 to 53.9 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8); hard when dry, extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A36705; moist when described;. Description same as for horizon C4. Horizon divided due to thickness. Sample taken with bucket auger.