IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978TX131001
  • User Pedon ID: 78TX131001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46188
  • 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: 27.8861103
  • Std. Longitude: -98.5944443
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Duval County, TX. 200 feet east and 200 feet north of intersection of US 59 and Texas 44 east of Freer.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX131—Duval
  • MLRA: 83C—Central Rio Grande Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX131—Duval County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fred Minzenmayer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Aridic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Houla (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2004
  • Classifier - Clark Harshbarger
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Houla
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: gently sloping upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—41

    41—130

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    —89—
    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
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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 1 percent shell fragments; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00015; observed in trench
    Bk1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 1 percent shell fragments and 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00016; observed in trench
    Bk2—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00017; observed in trench
    BCk—81 to 130 centimeters (31.9 to 51.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; loam; massive; very hard, firm; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 10 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00018; observed in trench
    Ck—130 to 165 centimeters (51.2 to 65.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silt loam; massive; very hard, firm; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 3 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red. Lab sample # 79P00019; observed in trench