IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eckrant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09TX0350010
  • User Pedon ID: S09TX0350010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09TX0350010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0570
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37500
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 31.8552475
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5870972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX035—Bosque
  • MLRA: 85—Grand Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31097-G5—Clifton, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ALS, JAG, JRJ, GWH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, thermic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eckrant
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, thermic Lithic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from limestone of the Edwards formation
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered limestone, unspecified at 48cm with <10
  • Geology: Kwl formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/2009 (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

    AMPS

    ANGE

    BOCU

    BOLAT

    CRTE4

    OPUNT

    QUVI

    SMILA2

    TRAGI

    YUCCA

    Ambrosia psilostachya

    Andropogon gerardii

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana

    Croton texensis

    Opuntia

    Quercus virginiana

    Smilax

    Tragia

    Yucca

    Cuman ragweed

    big bluestem

    sideoats grama

    silver beardgrass

    Texas croton

    pricklypear

    live oak

    greenbrier

    noseburn

    yucca

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    indurated

    48 - 59

    59 - 87

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

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    0—48

    48—59

    59—87

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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

    2

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    274

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    30

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    A1—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay loam; strong medium granular, and strong fine granular structure; moderately hard, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—16 to 48 centimeters (6.3 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very gravelly clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky parts to strong fine granular, and strong fine subangular blocky parts to strong medium granular structure; slightly hard, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 76-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—48 to 59 centimeters (18.9 to 23.2 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), moist; material; structureless massive; 3.0 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R1—59 to 77 centimeters (23.2 to 30.3 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), moist; bedrock; structureless massive; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R2—77 to 87 centimeters (30.3 to 34.3 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), moist; bedrock; structureless massive; fragments, by hcl, 1n.; dry when described; observed in pit, small