IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharkey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972LA123001
  • User Pedon ID: S1972LA123001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4107
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40299
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 32.8633347
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5183334
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 8 miles W of Oak Grove, 486 feet N of corner of gravel road; SW 1/4, SE 1/4
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA123—West Carroll
  • MLRA: 131—Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA123—West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.F. Reynolds and T.A. Weems
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, nonacid, thermic Vertic Haplaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharkey
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharkey
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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 (10YR 4/3) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31390
    B21tg—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent silt coats on vertical faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31391
    B22g—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) clay; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A31392
    B3g—58 to 119 centimeters (22.8 to 46.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) clay; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions and 1 percent fine brown (10YR 5/3) dark concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A31393