IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kentwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006LA037001-Kentwood
  • User Pedon ID: S2006LA037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0860
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18916
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 30.7456951
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8583603
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3 S.
  • Range: 3 E.
  • Section: 56
  • PLSS Details: 750 ft. south and 1125 ft. west of NE corner
  • Location Description: 1.2 miles south from Clinton, LA, on LA67 (Plank Road), then turn left on LA63. Head southeast on LA63 about 11.8 miles. Site is about 100 feet southwest of road between highway and sand pit.
  • Map Unit: Ke—Kenefick fine sandy loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA037—East Feliciana
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA037—East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30090-F7—Pine Grove, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gerald Trahan & Larry Kichler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kentwood
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kentwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Ultic Haplu
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy and sandy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Geology: Late Pleistocene Fluvial Deposits formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/25/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    lamellae

    0—17

    17—141

    109—

    175—206

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    —-

    —-

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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

    1

    —

    —

    38.1

    —

    135

    1600

    —

    276

    19.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    LA0549

    Baton Rouge WSO AP

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine and 10.0 fine pores; fine spherical worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03716; observed in trench
    AB—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine and 10.0 fine pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt1—18 to 58 centimeters (7.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 4.0 very fine and 4.0 fine pores; fine worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt2—58 to 75 centimeters (22.8 to 29.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 4.0 fine pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03719; observed in trench
    Bt3—75 to 109 centimeters (29.5 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 fine pores; prominent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, skeletans; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03720; observed in trench
    2Bt4—109 to 141 centimeters (42.9 to 55.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2 percent skeletans on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese masses with diffuse boundaries; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03721; observed in trench
    2BC—141 to 175 centimeters (55.5 to 68.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, skeletans on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03722; observed in trench
    2C—175 to 206 centimeters (68.9 to 81.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) sand; single grain; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 06N03723; observed in trench