IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SND
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016MS059001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016MS059001
  • User Site Association ID: Region 7 FY-16 NWCA Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0114
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 30.3946900
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5885500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 6W
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS059—Jackson
  • MLRA: 151—Gulf Coast Marsh
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MER—Meridian, Mississippi
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS059—Jackson County, Mississippi
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30088-D5—Pascagoula North, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lyfon Morris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, acid, thermic Thapto-Histic Sulfaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3141
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/11/2018
  • Classifier - Sandy Page
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - peraquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Handsboro
  • Taxonomic Class - Euic, thermic Typic Sulfihemists
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 26 to 127 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2016
  • Classifier - Lyfon Morris
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Mucky silty alluvium and/or Muck herbaceous organic material
  • Landscape: estuary
  • Landform: tidal marsh
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Wetland Information:
  • Cowardin Wetland Class - emergent wetland
  • Cowardin Wetland Subclass - organic
    • Cowardin Moisture Regime Modifier -
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Lyfon Morris

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Lyfon Morris
  • Surface Water Kind: ponded
  • Surface Water Depth: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 31
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    sulfidic materials

    ochric epipedon

    n value > 0.7

    0—171

    0—60

    0—60

    —171—

    —60—

    —60—
    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

    0.5

    100

    —

    3

    —

    180

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    Aseg1—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face peaty clay; structureless massive; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fluid; low excavation difficulty; many fine roots throughout; ; ; fragments; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00668; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler
    Aseg2—26 to 60 centimeters (10.2 to 23.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face peaty clay; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; very fluid; low excavation difficulty; common fine roots throughout; fragments; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00669; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler
    Oese—60 to 127 centimeters (23.6 to 50.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face mucky peat; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; very fluid; low excavation difficulty; few fine roots throughout; fragments; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N00670; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler
    Cseg—127 to 132 centimeters (50.0 to 52.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; very fluid; low excavation difficulty; fragments; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler
    Oase—132 to 171 centimeters (52.0 to 67.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face muck; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; very fluid; low excavation difficulty; fragments; reduced monosulfides present; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in macaulay sampler