IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burleson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77TX051005
  • User Pedon ID: 77TX051005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45015
  • 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: 30.4916668
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4763870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Snook Tex. 146 meters S of F.M. 60 in pasture at Texas A and meters Soil Physics Lab. Site. Burleson County Texas.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX051—Burleson
  • MLRA: 87A—Texas Claypan Area, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX051—Burleson County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30096-D4—Snook, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Castille and T. Sobecki
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Burleson
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2013
  • Classifier - Chance M. Robinson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burleson
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alkaline clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    free carbonates

    0—18

    38—147

    38—147

    38—147

    —18—

    —109—

    —109—

    —109—
    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

    0.6

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    —

    75

    —

    68

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    —

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    A—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00039. Amplitude varies from 25 to 46 cm.; common fine roots
    Bkss1—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00040. Amplitude varies from 56 to 69 cm.; few fine and medium lime concretions concentrations; few fine roots
    Bkss2—69 to 122 centimeters (27.2 to 48.0 inches);, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, moist; clay; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00041. Masses of very dark gray (10YR 3/1) material from above horizon. Structure parts to parallelepiped slickensides.; few fine and medium lime concretions concentrations; few fine distinct 7.5YR66 mottles
    Bkss3—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches);, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, moist; clay; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; hard, very firm; 1 percent fine dark concretions; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 78P00042. Many coarse 5 to 15 inch parallelepipeds tilted 10 to 45 degrees from horizontal.; common fine and medium lime concretions concentrations; few fine dark concretions concentrations; common medium prominent 5YR56 mottles