IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Murfreesboro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: AR109 Murfreesboro-S04-1
  • User Pedon ID: S2004AR109001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1115
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17050
  • 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: 34.0250015
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4180527
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8 south
  • Range: 22 west
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4,SW1/4,NW1/4
  • Map Unit: 102—Murfreesboro loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Arkansas
  • County: AR109—Pike
  • MLRA: 135B—Cretaceous Western Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AR109—Pike County, Arkansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ross/Olson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Murfreesboro
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Murfreesboro
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvial sediments
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/26/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 102L
  • Plant Association Name: grasses/legumes
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—104

    —25—

    —79—
    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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    85

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06506; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06507; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 20 percent distinct clay films on bottom faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N06508; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 268057; patchy - phpvsfiid 268057
    Bt2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N06509; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 268056; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 268056
    Bt3—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N06510; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 268055; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 268055
    BC—104 to 183 centimeters (40.9 to 72.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) extremely gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 20 percent by volume subrounded 75-125-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume subrounded 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 04N06511; moist when described; observed in pit, small