IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Adaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: AR053 Adaton TP_1
  • User Pedon ID: 04AR053001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N1117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17052
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 34.2560005
  • Std. Longitude: -92.3289413
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 South
  • Range: 12 West
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: in wooded area, Grant County, Arkansas
  • Map Unit: 388—Adaton silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Arkansas
  • County: AR053—Grant
  • MLRA: 133B—Western Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AR053—Grant County, Arkansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34092-C3—Prague, Arkansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Typic Endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Adaton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Adaton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: flat
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Ponding: rare ponding for brief periods begining in mar
  • Geology: Upland Flats formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/15/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—183

    79—183

    —15—

    —168—

    —93—
    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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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; 50 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Btg1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silt loam; 50 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine distinct irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix surrounding redox concentrations; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Btg2—46 to 79 centimeters (18.1 to 31.1 inches); silt loam; 50 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Btg3—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N06519; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Btg4—102 to 183 centimeters (40.2 to 72.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket