IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vaiden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981MS101001
  • User Pedon ID: S1981MS101001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0560
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49404
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 32.3051758
  • Std. Longitude: -89.2395096
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1.25 miles south of Lawrence, MS, approximately 50 feet west of Mississippi Highway 505, SE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS101—Newton
  • MLRA: 135A—Alabama and Mississippi Blackland Prairie
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS101—Newton County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Velton C. Allgood, Robert B. Hinton, and W. M. Koos
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, thermic Aquic Dystruderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaiden
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Classifier - Chris Hatcher
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaiden
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, smectitic, thermic Aquic Dystruderts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—84

    —13—

    —71—
    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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    144

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    360

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03307
    Bt1—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct and 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03308
    Bt2—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1); fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 81P03309
    2C—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) loam; 21 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium and coarse distinct mottles; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1); fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 81P03310