IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beaumont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955TX071090
  • User Pedon ID: S1955TX071090
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4560
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40712
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 29.7357998
  • Std. Longitude: -94.3890991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: N of High Island 10.7 miles; 0.4 miles W of State Highway 124, and 100 feet N of paved county road, opposite pipe yard.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX071—Chambers
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX071—Chambers County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. C. Mowery
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Chromic Dystraquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 90
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beaumont
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/2014
  • Classifier - Kenny Hall
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beaumont
  • Taxonomic Class - Smectitic
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    reduced matrix

    aquic conditions

    slickensides

    0—18

    0—203

    0—203

    58—203

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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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay; 3 percent medium faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; 21.0 roots; 1.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34808
    Bw—18 to 58 centimeters (7.1 to 22.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay; 3 percent medium faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; 0.5 roots; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34809
    Bssg1—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; clay; 21 percent medium distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34810
    Bssg2—84 to 135 centimeters (33.1 to 53.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; clay; 3 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium distinct and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A34811
    Bssg3—135 to 203 centimeters (53.1 to 79.9 inches); silty clay; 21 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium distinct and 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A34812. Similar to horizon above, but brownish yellow mottles are more numerous.