IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Laewest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989TX469012
  • User Pedon ID: 89TX469012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0508
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61610
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • State: Texas
  • County: TX469—Victoria
  • MLRA: 150B—Gulf Coast Saline Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Miller
  • 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 #: 12
  • 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 - 4/1/1989
  • 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: 4/1/1989 (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—221

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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

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    97

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine pores; 1 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P02820. few fine and medium carbonate nodules concentrations; common fine roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout
    Bk1—10 to 61 centimeters (3.9 to 24.0 inches); clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P02821. 3 nearly vertical bands at 70 to 80 degrees from horizontal. West band: (10YR 4/1) matrix, pressure faces, no mottles, 2MFABK, hard, common very fine roots, few very fine pores, fine rounded 1% CaCO3 concretions, very slight effervescence.
    Bk2—61 to 109 centimeters (24.0 to 42.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) clay; 11 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) medium distinct mottles; strong coarse and very coarse wedge structure; extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine pores; 15 percent prominent dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 11 percent coarse spherical carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P02822. Mottles are associated around iron-manganese concretions; (10YR 3/3) crack fillings; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common coarse carbonate nodules concentrations; few intersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; common medium distinct 5Y63 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 224156; continuous - phpvsfiid 224156
    Bk3—109 to 160 centimeters (42.9 to 63.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) clay; 1 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine prominent mottles; strong coarse and very coarse wedge structure; extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine pores; prominent gray (5Y 5/1), moist, slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent medium and coarse spherical carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P02823. few medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few medium and coarse carbonate nodules concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; few fine prominent 10YR64 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 224157; continuous - phpvsfiid 224157
    Bk4—160 to 221 centimeters (63.0 to 87.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium mottles; moderate very coarse angular blocky structure; extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine pores; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions; 11 percent very coarse and extremely coarse spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P02824. few medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common very coarse and extremely coarse soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; few medium 10YR44 mottles