IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arenosa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX289001
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX289001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010TX289001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0894
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37571
  • Print Date: 12/8/2025

    • 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: 31.3410111
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2532667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details:
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX289—Leon
  • MLRA: 87A—Texas Claypan Area, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX289—Leon County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31096-C3—Round Prairie, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Reid, Travis Waiser, Jacob Bushong
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Thermic, uncoated Ustic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arenosa
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/16/2014
  • Classifier - Chance M. Robinson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arenosa
  • Taxonomic Class - Thermic, uncoated Ustic Quartzipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/7/2010
  • Classifier - Richard Reid, Travis Waiser, Jacob Bushong
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: inland dissected coastal plain
  • Landform: broad ridge
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ec formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/17/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CENCH

    ILVO

    JUVI

    OPUNT

    QUIN

    QUST

    YUCCA

    Cenchrus

    Ilex vomitoria

    Juniperus virginiana

    Opuntia

    Quercus incana

    Quercus stellata

    Yucca

    sandbur

    yaupon

    eastern redcedar

    pricklypear

    bluejack oak

    post oak

    yucca

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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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

    0.5

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    135

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sand; weak medium granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04380; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04381; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—43 to 96 centimeters (16.9 to 37.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very coarse roots throughout and 0.3 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04382; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C3—96 to 170 centimeters (37.8 to 66.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.3 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04383; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C4—170 to 212 centimeters (66.9 to 83.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.2 fine roots throughout; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 10N04384; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket