IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEMPHIS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960MS049002
  • User Pedon ID: S1960MS049002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4808
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41502
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 32.3446198
  • Std. Longitude: -90.6703796
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: Center W1/2, SW1/4 of the SW1/4
  • Location Description: On old US Highway 80, 1,000 feet north of highway at Smith's station.
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS049—Hinds
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS049—Hinds County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. C. Carter and Y. H. Havens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEMPHIS
  • Classificaton Date - 12/7/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/7/1960 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    AP—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36497
    B21T—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36498
    B21T—43 to 63 centimeters (16.9 to 24.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36499. Horizon divided for characterization purposes only.
    B22T—63 to 94 centimeters (24.8 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; prominent clay films on faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36500
    B23T—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak and moderate prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36501
    B23T—124 to 163 centimeters (48.8 to 64.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak and moderate prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36502