IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ruston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966LA119001
  • User Pedon ID: S1966LA119001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1340
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34948
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 32.8591652
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3961105
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: about 2.9 miles N of Cotton Valley, on north-south blacktop road, 80 feet E of road, 100 feet S of gravel yard.
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA119—Webster
  • MLRA: 133B—Western Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA119—Webster Parish, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Young and Bruce Chaffin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ruston
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Attoyac
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10205
    B21t—13 to 76 centimeters (5.1 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium and 10.0 fine pores; 3 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A10206. patchy - phpvsfiid 191650; patchy - phpvsfiid 191650
    B22t—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 37 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A10207. arbitrary boundary.; patchy - phpvsfiid 191651; patchy - phpvsfiid 191651
    B23t—114 to 145 centimeters (44.9 to 57.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 37 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A10208. arbitrary boundary.; patchy - phpvsfiid 191652; patchy - phpvsfiid 191652
    B3—145 to 229 centimeters (57.1 to 90.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A10209