IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sanger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984TX121001
  • User Pedon ID: 84TX121001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0236
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55952
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 33.1283340
  • Std. Longitude: -97.2269440
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX121—Denton
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. R. Stringer, D. L. Brown and G. L. Lane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sanger
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sanger
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Udic Chromustert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    slickensides

    cambic horizon

    0—97

    71—152

    97—152

    —97—

    —81—

    —55—

    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

    2

    225

    135

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 11 percent worm casts and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01173. Few fine and very fine pebbles of ironstone.; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; common worm casts concentrations; many fine roots
    A—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior, dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 15 percent clay films and 55 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine carbonate masses and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P01174. Few ironstone pebbles 2 to 10 mm in diameter; sampled separately for sampling purposes.; few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; many pressure faces surface features; few clay films surface features; common fine roots
    Bk—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior, dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 15 percent clay films and 55 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine carbonate masses and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P01175. Few ironstone pebbels 2 to 10 mm in diameter; sampled separately for sampling purposes.; few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; many pressure faces surface features; few clay films surface features; common fine roots
    Bkss1—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 55 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate masses and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P01176. Few ironstone pebbles 2 to 10 mm in diameter; few cracks filled with black clay from above.; few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; many intersecting slickensides surface features; common fine roots
    Bkss2—97 to 135 centimeters (38.2 to 53.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior, olive (5Y 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay; 1 percent fine faint mottles; weak coarse blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 11 percent fine carbonate masses and 11 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P01177. Few ironstone pebbles 2 to 10 mm in diameter; few very fine dark concretions.; common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine carbonate concretions concentrations; common intersecting slickensides surface features; few fine roots; few fine faint mottles
    Bkss3—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent carbonate concretions and 11 percent coarse carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 85P01178. common coarse soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few carbonate concretions concentrations; few intersecting slickensides surface features; few fine roots
    C—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 11 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) medium distinct mottles; weak medium and coarse platy structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) black stains on bottoms of plates; 11 percent coarse carbonate masses and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P01179. Few fossil shell fragments less than 2 cm across; common coarse soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; common black stains surface features on bottoms of plates; few fine roots; common medium distinct 10YR73 mottles