IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): China
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90TX245022
  • User Pedon ID: 90TX245022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63078
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 29.9927750
  • Std. Longitude: -94.3352778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Jefferson County, TX; About 16 mi southwest of Beaumont; from the intersection of Interstate Highway 10 and US Highway 90, 12.2 mi west on US Highway 90, 3.8 mi south on South China Road, 400 feet east on field road that crosses a canal.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX245—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Mulligan, R. Lambert, G. Crenwelge, G. Lane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Oxyaquic Dystruderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - China
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - China High
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Microfeature: microhigh gilgai
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/8/2010 (entry creation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • 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

    0—35

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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

    —

    —

    8

    —

    145

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    —

    20

    27

    12

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; 5 to 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00191. krotovina are dark gray krotovina
    A2—10 to 35 centimeters (3.9 to 13.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine pores; 3 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; 5 to 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00192. krotovina are dark gray krotovina
    Bg3—35 to 74 centimeters (13.8 to 29.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium prominent masses of oxidized iron and 8 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 12 percent fine prominent masses of oxidized iron; fragments; 5 to 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00193. krotovina are dark gray krotovina
    Bssyg1—74 to 103 centimeters (29.1 to 40.6 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine prominent masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine gypsum, finely disseminated throughout and 5 percent fine gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; 5 to 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00194. krotovina are dark gray krotovina
    Bssyg2—103 to 140 centimeters (40.6 to 55.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 8 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 8 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent fine gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; 5 to 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00195. krotovina are dark gray krotovina
    Bssyg3—140 to 178 centimeters (55.1 to 70.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine prominent red (10R 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 8 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent fine gypsum crystal clusters throughout and 10 percent fine gypsum, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; 5 to 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00196. krotovina are dark gray krotovina
    Bssg—178 to 220 centimeters (70.1 to 86.6 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 20 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 8 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent coarse prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; 2 to 8 percent krotovinas (volume percent). Lab sample # 91P00197. krotovina are dark gray krotovina