IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ferris
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68TX223001
  • User Pedon ID: 68TX223001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4594
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40746
  • 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: 33.2535071
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7101809
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a pasture 9.2 miles north of Sulphur Springs on Farm Roas 2285, 1.1 miles west on Farm Road 71, and 160 feet south of road
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX223—Hopkins
  • MLRA: 86A—Texas Blackland Prairie, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX610—Hopkins and Rains Counties, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33095-C6—Cooper South, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Calciusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Hopkins and Rain Counties Soil Survey Manuscript
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ferris
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2014
  • Classifier - Chance M. Robinson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ferris
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Udorthentic Chromusterts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1977
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: dissected plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: noncoherent shale, calcareous at 91cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/3/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Chance M. Robinson
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    densic material

    bedrock, densic

    noncoherent

    noncoherent

    91 - 168

    91 - 91

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

    ochric epipedon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    calcic horizon

    densic materials

    densic contact

    0—10

    0—168

    0—168

    10—33

    10—91

    33—168

    91—168

    91—91

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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

    6

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    161

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    270

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; 10 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; moderately few (5.0) roots; 10 percent pressure faces; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35020
    Bkss1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35021
    Bkss2—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent carbonate concretions and 10 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35022
    Bkss3—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 5 percent carbonate concretions and 10 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume noncoherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35023
    Cd—91 to 168 centimeters (35.8 to 66.1 inches); variegated light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) and gray (10YR 5/1) clay; structureless massive; extremely hard, very firm; 5 percent carbonate concretions and 5 percent carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A35024