IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keese
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986TX299002
  • User Pedon ID: 86TX299002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0295
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58100
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 30.6497778
  • Std. Longitude: -98.8715000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From TX-16&FR-2323 Intersection 18.7km SW on FM-2323, 5.6km W on County road, 0.97km S on private road, 137m E in range. The lat/long was adjusted to put this location within a Keese mapunit.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX299—Llano
  • MLRA: 82—Texas Central Basin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Coburn,Finnell,Lane,Williams,Berdanier,Allison
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, active, thermic, shallow Typic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keese
  • PSC - 25 to 39 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keese
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Udic Ustochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: solid rock derived from gneiss
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1986 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    39 - 110

    - 71 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—22

    22—39

    39—110

    —22—

    —17—

    —71—
    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

    3

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    392

    —

    0

    66

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    415272

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    A—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; loamy coarse sand; weak fine granular structure; hard, friable; many (5.5) very fine roots throughout and many (5.5) fine roots throughout; 14 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01740. many fine roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout
    Bw—22 to 39 centimeters (8.7 to 15.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loamy coarse sand; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common (2.5) medium roots throughout and common (2.5) fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01741
    C—39 to 80 centimeters (15.4 to 31.5 inches); loamy coarse sand; common (2.5) medium roots in cracks and common (2.5) fine roots in cracks; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01742. common fine roots in cracks; common medium roots in cracks
    Cr—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); coarse sand; few (0.5) medium roots in cracks and few (0.5) fine roots in cracks; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # 86P01743