IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ATWOOD
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961MS115001
  • User Pedon ID: S1961MS115001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4311
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40474
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 34.1376343
  • Std. Longitude: -88.9822769
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 NW1/4
  • Location Description: On Experiment Station 7 miles south of Pontotoc on Highway 15 and about 1/2 mile east on gravel road.
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS115—Pontotoc
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS115—Pontotoc County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. A. Perry and R. C. Carter
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ATWOOD
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/1961
  • 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: 5/18/1961 (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
    • 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
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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32917
    B1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32918
    B21t—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; coats; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32919
    B22t—58 to 94 centimeters (22.8 to 37.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats; 3 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32920. patchy - phpvsfiid 197632; patchy - phpvsfiid 197632
    B23t—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats; 21 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32921
    B23t—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats; 21 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32922
    B24t—152 to 190 centimeters (59.8 to 74.8 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; clay films on faces of peds and 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A32923. patchy - phpvsfiid 197638; patchy - phpvsfiid 197638