IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vaiden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MS087002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MS087002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4839
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41528
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 33.4495926
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5478210
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 538 feet east and 552 feet north of the southwest corner of the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: One mile south of Motley Creek and 7 miles west of Columbus. Photograph ND-7F-70.
  • 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 #: 2
  • 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: crest
  • 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-7F-70
  • 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—8

    8—53

    53—97

    —8—

    —45—

    —44—
    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

    4

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    —

    79

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36730; moist when described;
    Bt1—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A36731; moist when described;
    Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; 21 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine distinct and 21 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky, and subangular blocky, and very fine and fine angular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A36732; moist when described;
    Btss—53 to 97 centimeters (20.9 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) clay; weak and moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21 percent carbonate nodules; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36733; moist when described;