IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loring
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956MS049001
  • User Pedon ID: S1956MS049001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4800
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41494
  • 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: 32.3985062
  • Std. Longitude: -90.2117615
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: northeast quarter of northwest quarter
  • Location Description: 6 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi on George S. Hamilton farm.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS049—Hinds
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-GRM—Greenwood, Mississippi
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS049—Hinds County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Kubota and V. H. McGehee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loring
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - LORING
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3G-175
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    76 - 191

    - 115 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—18

    18—191

    76—191

    —18—

    —173—

    —115—
    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

    4

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A36432. Thin litter of hardwood leaves.
    A—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36433
    E—6 to 18 centimeters (2.4 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt; weak granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36434
    Bt1—18 to 26 centimeters (7.1 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36435
    Bt2—26 to 56 centimeters (10.2 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36436
    Bt3—56 to 72 centimeters (22.0 to 28.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36437
    Btx1—72 to 89 centimeters (28.3 to 35.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36438
    Btx2—89 to 110 centimeters (35.0 to 43.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 fine roots; coats on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36439
    Btx3—110 to 135 centimeters (43.3 to 53.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silt loam; medium prismatic structure; hard when dry, firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36440
    Btx4—135 to 166 centimeters (53.1 to 65.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silt loam; medium prismatic parts to medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; coats on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36441
    Btx5—166 to 191 centimeters (65.4 to 75.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), white (10YR 8/1), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse and very coarse columnar, and prismatic structure; slightly hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent coats; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36442