IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Topsey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09TX0350008
  • User Pedon ID: S09TX0350008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09TX0350008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0568
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36948
  • Print Date: 1/11/2025
  • 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: 32.0133476
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5760956
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX035—Bosque
  • MLRA: 85—Grand Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32097-A5—Morgan, Texas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ALS, JAG, JRJ, GWH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, thermic Udic Calciustepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Topsey
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, thermic Udic Calciustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 32 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/2009
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum weathered from limestoneof the Walnut formation
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered limestone, unspecified at 91cm with <10
  • Geology: Kwa formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOLAT

    BORI

    BUDA

    JUAS

    SPORO

    Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana

    Bouteloua rigidiseta

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Juniperus ashei

    Sporobolus

    silver beardgrass

    Texas grama

    buffalograss

    Ashe's juniper

    dropseed

    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    noncoherent

    moderately coherent

    strongly coherent

    62 - 91

    91 - 107

    107 - 117

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    densic materials

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—36

    62—91

    91—107

    107—117

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    208

    170

    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium platy structure; moderately hard, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; weak medium prismatic structure; moderately hard, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries at top of horizon; 2 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    CB—36 to 62 centimeters (14.2 to 24.4 inches); 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3), 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1) and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very hard, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd—62 to 91 centimeters (24.4 to 35.8 inches); 80 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), 80 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist; silty clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct dendritic noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in cracks; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; material; strong coarse angular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R—107 to 117 centimeters (42.1 to 46.1 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist; bedrock; structureless massive; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; dry when described; observed in pit, small