IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Heiden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987TX145001A
  • User Pedon ID: 87TX145001A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0648
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59943
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 31.4544449
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8811111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From plot boundary, North 25 feet in East traffic lane
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX145—Falls
  • MLRA: 86—Texas Blackland Prairie

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Lane, G. Miller, C. Batte, J. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Chromusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Heiden
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Heiden
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Udic Chromustert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    4

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    160

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    315

    90

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    19

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    1Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03400. Splotches of (5Y 5/3).; few fine roots
    1Bw—28 to 50 centimeters (11.0 to 19.7 inches);, olive (5Y 5/3) interior, moist; clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Splotches of (2.5Y 3/2).; few fine roots
    1Bk1—50 to 76 centimeters (19.7 to 29.9 inches);, pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior, moist; clay; 30 percent pale yellow (5Y 7/3) fine distinct and 30 percent pale yellow (5Y 7/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent , moist, slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Few black concretions.; few medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few intersecting slickensides surface features; few fine roots; many fine distinct 5Y73 mottles; many medium distinct 5Y73 mottles
    1Bk2—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches);, pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior, moist; clay; 1 percent yellow (5Y 7/6) medium prominent and 30 percent pale yellow (5Y 7/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 37 percent , moist, slickensides (pedogenic); 11 percent medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Few black concretions; common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common intersecting slickensides surface features; few fine roots; few medium prominent 5Y76 mottles; many medium distinct 5Y73 mottles