IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calallen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009TX4095802
  • User Pedon ID: S09TX4095802
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N1069
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24743
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 28.1264725
  • Std. Longitude: -97.6638641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX409—San Patricio
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jon Wiedenfeld
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 5802
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calallen
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Raymondville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Pachic Vertic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: flat coastal plain
  • Landform: abandoned meander
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Beaumont formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—46

    10—200

    —46—

    —190—
    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

    0.3

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    —

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine vesicular pores; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), dry, iron-manganese nodules on faces of peds; white (10YR 8/1), dry,; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N04254; dry when described;
    Bt—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand coats and 10 percent faint black (10YR 2/1), dry, clay films; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N04255; dry when described;
    Btss—30 to 47 centimeters (11.8 to 18.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry, sand coats and 10 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), dry, clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N04256; dry when described;
    Btk1—47 to 76 centimeters (18.5 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 2 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand coats and 15 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films; ; 3 percent coarse very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry, worm casts and 1 percent fine white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses and 3 percent medium white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N04257; dry when described;
    Btk2—76 to 110 centimeters (29.9 to 43.3 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 2.0 very fine roots and ; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) pressure faces on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; ; 2 percent coarse white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses and 1 percent fine light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, carbonate nodules and 8 percent medium white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses and 2 percent medium dark gray (10YR 4/1) worm casts; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N04258; dry when described;
    Btk3—110 to 157 centimeters (43.3 to 61.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix and 2 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), dry, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries on faces of peds; 4 percent coarse white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses and 2 percent coarse dark gray (10YR 4/1) worm casts and 2 percent fine white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses and 5 percent medium white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N04259; dry when described;
    Btk4—157 to 182 centimeters (61.8 to 71.7 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist; clay loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate very coarse angular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1), dry, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries on faces of peds; 5 percent coarse light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, carbonate masses and 1 percent medium dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry, worm casts and 3 percent medium white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N04260; dry when described;
    Btk5—182 to 203 centimeters (71.7 to 79.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist; clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak very coarse angular blocky structure; hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry, clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), dry, manganese masses; 2 percent white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 09N04261; dry when described;