IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bancker
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992TX245001
  • User Pedon ID: 1992TX245001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 92TX245001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0632
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64871
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 29.7397222
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0141667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX245—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 151—Gulf Coast Marsh
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX245—Jefferson County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Crenwelge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, nonacid, hyperthermic Typic Hydraquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bancker
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bancker
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: salt marsh
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/8/2010 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 48
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • 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

    SCRO

    SPSP

    Scirpus robustus

    Spartina spartinae

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    gulf cordgrass

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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

    0

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    0

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    20

    27.2

    12.2

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    Cg1—0 to 84 centimeters (0.0 to 33.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; massive; very slow permeability; 25.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P03817; wet when described;. Many strata of (5Y 2.5/1) and (N 5/0) that are 1 to 3 cm thick; flows easily between fingers when squeezed leaving hand empty
    Oe—23 to 0 centimeters (9.1 to 0.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) mucky peat; massive; very slow permeability; 50.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P03816; wet when described;. About 40% mineral; flows easily between fingers when squeezed leaving mainly roots in hand
    Cg2—84 to 203 centimeters (33.1 to 79.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) clay; massive; very slow permeability; fragments; violent effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified. Lab sample # 92P03818; wet when described;. Flows easily between fingers when squeezed leaving hand empty