IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1965AR007003M
  • User Pedon ID: 1965AR007003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UARK
  • Lab Pedon # - 65BN03
  • Print Date: 4/21/2026

    • 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: 36.1644000
  • Std. Longitude: -94.4511000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T17N
  • Range: R33W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4
  • Location Description: NW1/4NW1/4SE1/4, Sec. 12, T17N, R33W
  • State: Arkansas
  • County: AR007—Benton
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.W. Phillips
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/2017
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1965 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
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    A1—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; many fine roots and many coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UAR0004464
    Bt1—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; many fine and many coarse pores; clay films on all faces of peds and clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UAR0004465
    Bt2—84 to 127 centimeters (33.1 to 50.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common pores; clay films on all faces of peds and clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # UAR0004466
    BC—127 to 183 centimeters (50.0 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; extremely gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films on all faces of peds and clay films on surfaces along pores; 60 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # UAR0004467