IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houston Black
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954TX027090
  • User Pedon ID: S1954TX027090
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4580
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40732
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 31.0413895
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1488876
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 12 miles E of Temple where State Highway 53 makes a right angle turn to the N; 250 feet N of county road and 225 feet E of highway.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX027—Bell
  • MLRA: 86A—Texas Blackland Prairie, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX027—Bell County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. C. Mowery
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Pellusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 90
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Houston Black
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Houston
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Microfeature: gilgai
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/4/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    A11—0 to 41 centimeters (0.0 to 16.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; moderate and strong medium granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; slow permeability; 21.0 roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34932
    A12—41 to 107 centimeters (16.1 to 42.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; 3.0 roots; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34933
    AC1—107 to 168 centimeters (42.1 to 66.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; 0.5 roots; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34934
    AC2—168 to 224 centimeters (66.1 to 88.2 inches); weak very coarse angular blocky structure; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A34935
    C—224 to 279 centimeters (88.2 to 109.8 inches); moderate angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34936