IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ANDRY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969LA045002
  • User Pedon ID: S1969LA045002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969LA045002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4110
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40302
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025
  • 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: 29.8883324
  • Std. Longitude: -91.9663925
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 42 yards S of canal, 99 yards E
  • Location Description: about 3 miles SE of Delcambre.
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA045—Iberia
  • MLRA: 131—Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA045—Iberia Parish, Louisiana
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David F. Slusher, Warren Lynn, Leo Juve, Henry Clark, Almond White, Al Wilhite, Warren L. Cockerham, and William McKinzie
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - ANDRY
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Andry
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/10/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Wildlife habitat and range
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SPPA

    Spartina patens

    saltmeadow cordgrass

    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1524

    20

    O21—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) peat; massive; nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31405. about 50% mineral.
    O22—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) mucky peat; massive; nonsticky; 10.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31406. dominantly herbaceous fiber.
    A1—36 to 49 centimeters (14.2 to 19.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31407
    A12g—49 to 64 centimeters (19.3 to 25.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31408
    A3g—64 to 87 centimeters (25.2 to 34.3 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) silty clay loam; 10 percent gray (5Y 5/1) medium distinct mottles; massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31409
    B21cag—87 to 130 centimeters (34.3 to 51.2 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A31410
    B22g—130 to 166 centimeters (51.2 to 65.4 inches); greenish gray (5GY 5/1) silty clay loam; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) fine faint mottles; massive; hard, firm; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A31411