IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houston Black
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996TX027001A
  • User Pedon ID: 96TX027001A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0259
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68337
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 30.9880943
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1721878
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bell County, Texas, USA. About 5 mi. (8 km) NNE of Rogers on Glen Chervenka farm.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX027—Bell
  • MLRA: 86—Texas Blackland Prairie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX027—Bell County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30097-H2—Rogers, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glen Chervenka and James Greenwade
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Houston Black
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic Chromic Haplusterts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/4/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    3

    50

    200

    147

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    Bssk—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2); slickensides (pedogenic); fragments. Lab sample # 96P02089. continuous - phpvsfiid 175986; continuous - phpvsfiid 175986
    Bssk—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P02096
    Bssk—30 to 60 centimeters (11.8 to 23.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1); moderate medium angular blocky structure; slickensides (pedogenic); 5 percent lime masses; fragments. Lab sample # 96P02095. Few chert gravel.; continuous - phpvsfiid 176713; continuous - phpvsfiid 176713
    Bssk—40 to 80 centimeters (15.7 to 31.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 96P02097
    Bssk—53 to 73 centimeters (20.9 to 28.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and gray (10YR 5/1); moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slickensides (pedogenic); 5 percent lime masses; fragments. Lab sample # 96P02088. continuous - phpvsfiid 175985; continuous - phpvsfiid 175985
    Bss—68 to 98 centimeters (26.8 to 38.6 inches); 40 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1); moderate medium angular blocky structure; slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 96P02090. continuous - phpvsfiid 192277; continuous - phpvsfiid 192277
    Bss—75 to 80 centimeters (29.5 to 31.5 inches); 40 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1); slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 96P02091. continuous - phpvsfiid 192283; continuous - phpvsfiid 192283
    Bssy—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); 40 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); moderate medium angular blocky structure; slickensides (pedogenic); 2 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 96P02094. continuous - phpvsfiid 176712; continuous - phpvsfiid 176712
    Bssk—90 to 110 centimeters (35.4 to 43.3 inches); 40 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1); moderate medium angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 96P02092
    Bssk—110 to 130 centimeters (43.3 to 51.2 inches); 40 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1); fragments. Lab sample # 96P02093