IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arenosa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX289009
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX289009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0999
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37518
  • 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: 31.0735806
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1979056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX289—Leon
  • MLRA: 87A—Texas Claypan Area, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31096-A2—Hilltop Lakes, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jacob Bushong, Travis Waiser, Richard Reid, Chance Robinson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Thermic, uncoated Ustic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • 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 - 6/7/2010
  • Classifier - Jacob Bushong, Travis Waiser, Richard Reid
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: inland dissected coastal plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Geology: Es formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    0—18

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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

    4

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    137

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    120

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent fine worm casts on surfaces along root channels; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04780; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—18 to 63 centimeters (7.1 to 24.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04781; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—63 to 119 centimeters (24.8 to 46.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04782; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C3—119 to 168 centimeters (46.9 to 66.1 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6), 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 # 10N04783; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C4—168 to 217 centimeters (66.1 to 85.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.2 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 10N04784; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket