IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ATWOOD
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961MS115002
  • User Pedon ID: S1961MS115002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4313
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40476
  • 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: 34.2154083
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0067215
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2-1/2 miles south of Pontotoc on State Highway 15 and 1/4 mile west on gravel road. SW1/4 NE1/4
  • 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 Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • 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
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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; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32934
    B21t—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32935. patchy - phpvsfiid 197640; patchy - phpvsfiid 197640
    B22t—46 to 79 centimeters (18.1 to 31.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds and 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats; 21 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A32936
    B23t—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and angular 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 # 40A32937
    B23t—114 to 145 centimeters (44.9 to 57.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and angular 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 # 40A32938
    B24t—145 to 201 centimeters (57.1 to 79.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; clay films on faces of peds and 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) coats; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A32939. patchy - phpvsfiid 189084; patchy - phpvsfiid 189084