IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frio
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: occasionally flooded
  • User Site ID: S1980TX099003
  • User Pedon ID: 80TX099003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0099
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48394
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 31.3172226
  • Std. Longitude: -97.4705582
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Coryell Co; from intersection of TX Hwy 36 & 236 18 mi SE of Gatesville TX 5.2 mi NE on Hwy 236 100 feet W in woods.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX099—Coryell
  • MLRA: 85—Grand Prairie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX099—Coryell County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31097-C4—Eagle Springs, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gaylon Lane and Laurie Kiniry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frio (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/2021
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frio
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous clayey alluvium over calcareous loamy alluvium over calcareous clayey alluvium derived from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R085AY181TX Loamy Bottomland 30-38" PZ Mar 17 2021

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    calcic horizon

    0—102

    0—203

    56—102

    56—203

    102—203

    —102—

    —203—

    —46—

    —147—

    —101—
    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

    —

    —

    186

    —

    180

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.5) fine and medium roots and few (0.5) coarse roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00510; observed in pit, small
    A2—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.5) fine and medium roots and few (0.5) coarse roots; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00511; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.5) fine and medium roots and few (0.5) coarse roots; 5 percent carbonate coats; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00512; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 26 percent carbonate coats; 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00513; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—102 to 203 centimeters (40.2 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 26 percent carbonate coats; 12 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P00514; observed in pit, small. Split for sampling 102 to 140 cm sample number 81P0514 and 140 to 203 cm sample number 81P0515