IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bowie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986TX401001
  • User Pedon ID: 86TX401001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0159
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57964
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 32.2125015
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7375031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Rusk County, From intersection of HWY 43 and traffic circle in Henderson 4 mi NE on HWY 43 to oil top Rd, .4 mi N.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX401—Rusk

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Warren Lynn, Charles Fuchs, Tom Holt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Plinthic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bowie
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bowie
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Plinthic Paleudult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1986 (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
    • 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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    414081

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    1A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00987. many fine and medium roots
    1E—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 86P00988. common fine roots
    1Bt1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 86P00989. common fine roots
    1Bt2—51 to 124 centimeters (20.1 to 48.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; 0.2 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 86P00990. very few to few fine roots; common medium distinct 5YR58 mottles
    1Btv/E1—124 to 160 centimeters (48.8 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) coarse prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent prominent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00992. About 20% of the matrix is light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) stripped areas that are vertical; about 15% of the matrix is brittle and contains visicular pores that are lined with clay; about 8% plinthite.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; many coarse prominent 2.5YR48 mottles
    1Btv/E2—160 to 206 centimeters (63.0 to 81.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P00993. Vertical stripped light borwnish gray (10YR 6/2) very fine sand areas that have a light ray (10YR 6/1) clay loam at the base of most stripped areas; about 7% plinthite; about 10% brittle areas.