IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arenosa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: fine sand
  • User Site ID: 80TX143000
  • User Pedon ID: 80TX143000
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0313
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48091
  • User Project ID: 2020-MLRA-001
  • Project Name: MLRA 84B - Paluxy Erosional Hillslopes, Central Part
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 32.2516667
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1069444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX143—Erath
  • MLRA: 84B—West Cross Timbers
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX143—Erath County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32098-C1—Bluff Dale, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Soil Survey Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Thermic, coated Ustic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arenosa
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2020
  • Classifier - Chance Robinson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arenosa
  • Taxonomic Class - Thermic, coated Typic Quartzipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1980
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: locally reworked eolian sands derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • 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
    R084BY169TX Deep Sand 29-33" PZ Mar 25 2020 Chance Robinson

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/15/2014 (entry creation 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    resistant minerals

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    0—203

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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

    5

    —

    —

    386

    —

    90

    753

    —

    233

    17.8

    27.4

    7.8

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    —

    —

    —

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    418623

    STEPHENVILLE 9NNE

    COOP
    C1—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); fine sand; fragments. Lab sample # 80P01618
    C2—94 to 102 centimeters (37.0 to 40.2 inches); fine sand; fragments. Lab sample # 80P01619