IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): FORBING
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974LA017011
  • User Pedon ID: S1974LA017011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1974LA017011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3997
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39639
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 32.5258331
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8274994
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: about 5 miles SE of Blanchard, 750 feet NW of North Lakeshore Drive and Kansas City Southern Railroad, 200 feet SW of tracks, SE 1/4, NW 1/4, NW 1/4
  • State: Louisiana
  • County: LA017—Caddo
  • MLRA: 133B—Western Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: LA017—Caddo Parish, Louisiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jimmy Edwards, Wayne Magoun, and Wayne Kilpatrick
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Vertic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - FORBING
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Forbing
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/1973 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CYNOD

    PADI3

    SOHA

    Cynodon

    Paspalum dilatatum

    Sorghum halepense

    Bermudagrass

    dallisgrass

    Johnsongrass

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    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

    2

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    1168

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    18

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30613
    B21t—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) black stains in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30614
    B22t—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 10 percent fine and medium black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 10 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30615
    B23t—51 to 104 centimeters (20.1 to 40.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent black stains and 55 percent nonintersecting slickensides; 10 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A30616
    B3t—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 37 percent black stains in root channels and/or pores; 10 percent carbonate masses and 10 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A30617