IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEMPHIS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969LA045011
  • User Pedon ID: S1969LA045011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1346
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34954
  • 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: 29.9030209
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8929138
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 55
  • PLSS Details: E end of Spanish Land Grant
  • Location Description: Avery Island, 2 mile SE of toll gate. , 100 feet S of oil well on N facing slope. R4E recorded on descriptions changed to R6E.
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA045—Iberia
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA045—Iberia Parish, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Slusher, Warren Lynn, Herny Clark, and Warren L. Cockerham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MEMPHIS
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/13/1969 (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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    B21t

    B31t

    B33t

    1-2B34

    2B35

    10

    46

    117

    168

    191

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    B21t

    B31t

    B33t

    1-2B34

    2B35

    10

    46

    117

    168

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    B21t

    B31t

    B33t

    1-2B34

    2B35

    10

    46

    117

    168

    191

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    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

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10245
    B21t—10 to 46 centimeters (3.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10246. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 175345; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 175345
    B31t—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10247. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 175346; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 175346
    B32t—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine pores; 15 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A10248
    B33t—117 to 168 centimeters (46.1 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 pores; 15 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A10249
    1-2B34—168 to 191 centimeters (66.1 to 75.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A10250
    2B35—191 to 231 centimeters (75.2 to 90.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; massive; firm; 15 percent black stains; 1 percent fine and medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine and medium brown (10YR 5/3) iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A10251