IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MALBIS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980LA011002
  • User Pedon ID: S1980LA011002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0513
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48284
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 30.7686119
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4875031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: in the center, NE 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Beauregard Parish
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA011—Beauregard
  • MLRA: 133B—Western Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA011—Beauregard Parish, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. A. Touchet
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty over clayey, siliceous, thermic Plinthic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MALBIS
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Malbis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Plinthic Paleudult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/1980
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    3

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    54

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    135

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    26

    10

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sandy loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint mottles; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 3 percent medium and coarse spherical iron concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02896
    E—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sandy clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium faint mottles; massive parts to weak medium granular; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 3 percent coarse spherical iron concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02897
    B/E1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine sandy loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent coarse spherical iron concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02898. patchy - phpvsfiid 199761; patchy - phpvsfiid 199761
    BT1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent coarse spherical iron concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02899. continuous - phpvsfiid 199762; continuous - phpvsfiid 199762
    BT2—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; plinthite nodules; 3 percent medium spherical and 3 percent medium and coarse worm casts; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02900. continuous - phpvsfiid 199763; continuous - phpvsfiid 199763
    BT2—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 80P02901
    BT3—102 to 124 centimeters (40.2 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; plinthite nodules; 21 percent coarse spherical ; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02902
    B/E2A'2—124 to 157 centimeters (48.8 to 61.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) skeletans on faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; plinthite nodules; 3 percent coarse spherical ; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02903. continuous - phpvsfiid 199764; continuous - phpvsfiid 199765; continuous - phpvsfiid 199764; continuous - phpvsfiid 199765
    B/E3A'2—157 to 193 centimeters (61.8 to 76.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; plinthite nodules; 21 percent spherical ; fragments. Lab sample # 80P02904. continuous - phpvsfiid 199766; continuous - phpvsfiid 199766