IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Laewest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989TX469008
  • User Pedon ID: 89TX469008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0504
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61606
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Victoria County, Texas; soil survey sheet 35; about 7.0 miles SE of Victoria; 2.2 miles E of Hwy 87 near Dacosta on Farm Road 1686 and 150 feet S of R.O.W.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX469—Victoria
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Williams, W. Miller, T. Cook
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Typic Pelluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Laewest
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lake Charles
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Pelludert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 35
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—224

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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

    0

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    —

    7

    —

    97

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate fine granular structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 11 percent medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02790. 3% mixing of (10YR 6/1) material; common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bk1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); 40 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 60 percent gray (5Y 6/1) clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fine pores; distinct , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical carbonate masses and 1 percent medium spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02791. common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few medium carbonate concretions concentrations; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bk2—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); 35 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 65 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fine tubular pores; distinct , moist, pressure faces on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions and 11 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02792. Common root casts, (2.5Y) material is calcareous but (10YR) material is noncalcareous; common fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bk3—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2) clay; strong coarse and very coarse wedge structure; extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fine tubular pores; distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate masses and 11 percent medium and coarse spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02793; moist when described;. Slickenside faces are large, polished and grooved and planes are 2 to 6 cm apart; few fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common medium and coarse carbonate concretions concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 224135; continuous - phpvsfiid 224135
    Bk4—84 to 170 centimeters (33.1 to 66.9 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2) clay; strong medium and coarse wedge structure; extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; very fine and fine tubular pores; distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; 1 percent coarse and very coarse spherical carbonate masses and 11 percent medium and coarse spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 89P02794; moist when described;. Slickensides are polished and grooved, iron-mang. conc. have yellowed mottles surrounding them. Slickenside planes are 1 to 4 cm apart.; few coarse and very coarse soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common medium and coarse carbonate concretions concentrations; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 224136; continuous - phpvsfiid 224136
    Bk5—170 to 224 centimeters (66.9 to 88.2 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2) clay; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; strong coarse and very coarse wedge structure; extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; very fine and fine tubular pores; distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; 11 percent coarse and very coarse spherical carbonate masses and 1 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 89P02795; moist when described;. Slickenside faces are polished and grooved and planes are 4 to 10 cm apart; common coarse and very coarse soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; common fine distinct 10YR54 mottles; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 224137; continuous - phpvsfiid 224137