IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Memphis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: AR077 SCAN_Marianna
  • User Pedon ID: 04AR077001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0825
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16490
  • Print Date: 5/5/2024

    • 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: 34.7833328
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8166656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2 North
  • Range: 3 East
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 SW1/4 NW1/4
  • Location Description: Weather Station site set up on 2/05/04. In NW corner of vacant catfish processing plant. Site is approximately 2 1/2 miles West and 1/2 mile North of Marianna. Described as Memphis silt loam.Mapped as LoB Loring silt loam.
  • State: Arkansas
  • County: AR077—Lee
  • MLRA: 131—Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AR077—Lee County, Arkansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kichler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Classificaton Date - 2/5/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess/alluvium
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: flat
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Loess Over Stream Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/5/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: Lee SS-22
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    1.5

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    2084

    Uapb-Marianna

    SCAN
    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04726; observed in pit, small
    BA—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04727; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots; fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04728; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 269845; continuous - phpvsfiid 269845
    Bt2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; very fine moderate-continuity tubular and fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04729; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 269846; continuous - phpvsfiid 269846
    Bt3—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); 55 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots; medium moderate-continuity tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent noncoherent cemented iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04730; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 269847; continuous - phpvsfiid 269847
    Bt4—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); 55 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; medium moderate-continuity tubular pores; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent noncoherent cemented iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04731; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 269848; patchy - phpvsfiid 269848
    Bt5—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 23 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent noncoherent cemented iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 04N04732; observed in pit, small