IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEMPHIS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960MS049001
  • User Pedon ID: S1960MS049001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4807
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41501
  • 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: 32.3390656
  • Std. Longitude: -90.6473236
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: SE corner of the NE 1/4 of NW 1/4
  • Location Description: On old US Highway 80, one mile west of Mt. Beulah Institute and 165 feet south of highway.
  • State: Mississippi
  • County: MS049—Hinds
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MS049—Hinds County, Mississippi

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Y. H. Havens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEMPHIS
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/6/1960 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
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    AP1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36490. Not sampled.
    AP2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36491
    B21T—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36492
    B22T—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 30 percent coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented manganese concretions; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36493
    B22T—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 30 percent coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented manganese concretions; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36494
    B23T—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36495
    B23T—127 to 157 centimeters (50.0 to 61.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36496. Horizon divided for characterization purposes only.