IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vaiden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MS087001
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MS087001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4838
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41527
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 33.3457069
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5025406
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 280 feet south and 330 feet west of northeast corner of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4
  • Location Description: 280 feet south of county road to Trinity and 2 miles east of US Highway 45.
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS087—Lowndes
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS087—Lowndes County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Y. H. Havens
  • 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 #: 1
  • 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 - 5/21/1958
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower 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: 5/21/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ND-8F-90
  • 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—13

    13—84

    84—193

    —13—

    —71—

    —109—
    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

    —

    —

    73

    —

    0

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    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36723; moist when described;
    Bt1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36724; moist when described;
    Bt2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) silty clay; moderate and strong fine and medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36725; moist when described;
    Bt3—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and red (2.5YR 5/8) clay; moderate and strong fine angular blocky, and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36726; moist when described;
    Btss1—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay; medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to very fine and fine angular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36727; moist when described;
    Btss2—107 to 165 centimeters (42.1 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 21 percent fine manganese concretions; 21 percent coarse carbonate nodules; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36728; moist when described;
    Btss3—165 to 193 centimeters (65.0 to 76.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to very fine and fine angular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36729; moist when described;