IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Openlake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010MS011001
  • User Pedon ID: S2010MS011005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7871
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56627
  • User Project ID: 7MET_MLRA131A_001_2017
  • Project Name: MLRA 131A - Deer Creek Basin Commerce-Dundee Recorrelation Overarching Project
  • 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: 33.5333056
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0709167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: East of East Branch Deer Creek
  • Map Unit: Cc—Commerce silt loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS011—Bolivar
  • MLRA: 131A—Southern Mississippi River Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-GRM—Greenwood, Mississippi
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS011—Bolivar County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Terry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, nonacid, thermic Vertic Epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Openlake
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Commerce
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—96

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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

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue.; observed in push tube
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue.; observed in push tube
    Bg1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent medium dark brown (10YR 3/3) iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue.; observed in push tube
    Bg2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent pressure faces; 2 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue.; observed in push tube
    Bg3—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent pressure faces; 2 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue.; observed in push tube
    Bg4—76 to 96 centimeters (29.9 to 37.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent pressure faces; 2 percent medium light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue.; observed in push tube
    Bssg—96 to 132 centimeters (37.8 to 52.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent pressure faces and 2 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) iron-manganese masses and 2 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent medium reddish gray (5YR 5/2) masses of reduced iron and 20 percent medium light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium reddish brown (5YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue.; observed in push tube
    BC—132 to 157 centimeters (52.0 to 61.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent medium gray (10YR 5/1) masses of reduced iron and 5 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue.; observed in auger, bucket
    B'g—157 to 180 centimeters (61.8 to 70.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent pressure faces; 20 percent medium gray (2.5Y 5/1) masses of reduced iron in matrix and 25 percent medium brown (7.5YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2.; observed in auger, bucket
    BC'—180 to 203 centimeters (70.9 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent medium gray (2.5Y 5/1) masses of reduced iron in matrix and 30 percent medium brown (7.5YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2.; observed in auger, bucket