IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maurepas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968LA095006
  • User Pedon ID: S1968LA095006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4087
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40279
  • 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: 30.2416668
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4072189
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 15 miles N of LaPlace, 200 feet E of IC Railroad
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA095—St. John the Baptist
  • MLRA: 131—Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA095—St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Warren L. Cockerham and Ray Dance
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Euic, thermic Typic Medisaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Maurepas
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maurepas
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: swamp
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    Oa1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) rubbed and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) oxidized Error; massive; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31248. about 15% fiber; about 40% mineral matter.
    Oa2—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) rubbed and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) oxidized Error; massive; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31249. about 30% fiber; about 30% mineral matter; common wood fragments.
    Oa3—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) rubbed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) oxidized Error; massive; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31250. about 30% fiber; about 20% mineral matter; common logs and wood fragments.
    Oa4—76 to 183 centimeters (29.9 to 72.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed Error; massive; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A31251. about 8% fiber; 20% mineral matter; layer of wood and logs at 30 inches; three inch layer of semifluid gray clay at 60 inches.