IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Branyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96TX051001
  • User Pedon ID: 96TX051001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0253
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68331
  • 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: 30.4893341
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4790802
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Burleson County, Texas, USA. About 1 mi (1.5 km) west of Snook, TX; about 56 meters SE of fence along state highway 60.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX051—Burleson
  • MLRA: 87A—Texas Claypan Area, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX051—Burleson County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30096-D4—Snook, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DeWayne Williams, Glen Chervenka, and RA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Calciusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Branyon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/15/2013
  • Classifier - Chance M. Robinson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burleson-Mound
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic Typic Haplusterts
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/1996
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alkaline clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Microfeature: gilgai
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/30/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microhigh
  • Microrelief Elevation: 25
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    calcic horizon

    slickensides

    0—26

    0—208

    0—208

    26—65

    40—208

    —26—

    —208—

    —208—

    —39—

    —168—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    77

    —

    90

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; moderate fine and medium granular parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 96P02033. 1mm CaCO3 conc.
    A2—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 21.0 fine roots; 2 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 96P02034
    Bk—26 to 40 centimeters (10.2 to 15.7 inches);, gray (10YR 5/1), moist; gravelly clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 1.0 fine roots; 8 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 96P02035
    Bkss1—40 to 65 centimeters (15.7 to 25.6 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 96P02036
    Bkss2—65 to 100 centimeters (25.6 to 39.4 inches);, gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; 1.0 fine roots; 4 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 96P02037
    Bkss3—100 to 125 centimeters (39.4 to 49.2 inches);, yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay; strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; 1.0 fine roots; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Described in slump block after failure. Slickenside faces coated with 10YR 4/1.
    Bkss4—125 to 180 centimeters (49.2 to 70.9 inches);, yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; silty clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; 5 percent carbonate masses and 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 96P02038
    Bkss5—180 to 208 centimeters (70.9 to 81.9 inches);, yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; silty clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; 2 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 96P02039