IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rita
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968LA057001
  • User Pedon ID: S1968LA057001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4102
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40294
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 29.6880550
  • Std. Longitude: -90.6286087
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.75 miles SW of Raceland along U.S. Hwy 90, 400 ft. E of McMahon Canal, 300 ft. S of highway, T.16S., R.18E.
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA057—Lafourche
  • MLRA: 151—Gulf Coast Marsh
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA057—Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Warren L Cockerham and David F. Slusher
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rita
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/1968 (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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) muck; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31360
    2B21g—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; coats on faces of peds and 37 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A31361. few thin streaks of granular muck between vertical cleavage planes in upper 2 inches of horizon.; patchy - phpvsfiid 191661; patchy - phpvsfiid 191661
    2B22g—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium and coarse distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) coats on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A31362
    2Ab—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A31363. value becomes 1/2 unit lower on exposure to air; at about 2 foot intervals around pit there are vertical cracks 1/2 inch wide throughout this horizon and that are water bearing below 24 inches, the surfaces of the cracks are yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and have pits or craters 2-4 mm wide that appear to be solution cavities.
    2C1g—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) clay loam; massive; slightly sticky; slightly fluid; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A31364
    3C2g—109 to 127 centimeters (42.9 to 50.0 inches); dark greenish gray (5GY 4/1) fine sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A31365