IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Creole
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992TX245002
  • User Pedon ID: 1992TX245002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 92TX245002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0633
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64872
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 29.7011111
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0338889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX245—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 150B—Gulf Coast Saline Prairies
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX245—Jefferson County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Crenwelge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, nonacid, hyperthermic Typic Hydraquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Creole
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Creole
  • 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: 53
  • 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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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; very slow permeability; 10.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 92P03820; wet when described;
    Cg1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); gray (N 6/0) clay; weak medium platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very slow permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine irregular masses of dark accumulation; fragments; strong effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 92P03821; wet when described;
    Oe—18 to 0 centimeters (7.1 to 0.0 inches); dark gray (N 4/0) mucky peat; massive; very slow permeability; 45.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 92P03819; wet when described;. About 40% mineral; flows easily between fingers when squeezed leaving roots in hand
    Cg2—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); gray (N 6/0) clay; weak medium platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very slow permeability; 5 percent irregular masses of dark accumulation; fragments; violent effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 92P03822; wet when described;
    Cg3—69 to 130 centimeters (27.2 to 51.2 inches); gray (N 6/0) clay; 2 percent olive (5Y 5/6) fine prominent and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; massive; very slow permeability; 2 percent irregular iron-manganese concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 92P03823; wet when described;
    Cg4—130 to 203 centimeters (51.2 to 79.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay; massive; very slow permeability; fragments; violent effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 92P03824; wet when described;