IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bacliff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955TX157090
  • User Pedon ID: S1955TX157090
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955TX157090
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4563
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40715
  • 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: 29.5388889
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8600006
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4.5 miles W of Rosenberg and .4 miles N of US Highway 90A.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX157—Fort Bend
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX157—Fort Bend County, Texas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. C. Mowery
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Aquic Hapluderts
  • 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 - Bacliff
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beaumont
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Microfeature: gilgai
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1955 (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 Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap

    A2

    Bss1

    Bss2

    Bss3

    2Bss1

    2Bss2

    0

    30

    64

    94

    127

    168

    229

    30

    64

    94

    127

    168

    229

    290

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap

    A2

    Bss1

    Bss2

    Bss3

    2Bss1

    2Bss2

    0

    30

    64

    94

    127

    168

    229

    30

    64

    94

    127

    168

    229

    290

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap

    A2

    Bss1

    Bss2

    Bss3

    2Bss1

    2Bss2

    0

    30

    64

    94

    127

    168

    229

    30

    64

    94

    127

    168

    229

    290

    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BAPTI

    BAPTI

    PAPL3

    Baptisia

    Baptisia

    Paspalum plicatulum

    wild indigo

    wild indigo

    brownseed paspalum

    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

    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A34827
    A2—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 2 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34828
    Bss1—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; clay; 3 percent mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 2 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34829
    Bss2—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; clay; 3 percent mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 2 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34830
    Bss3—127 to 168 centimeters (50.0 to 66.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay; weak angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent fine and medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34831
    2Bss1—168 to 229 centimeters (66.1 to 90.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; clay; 25 percent pink (5YR 7/4) medium and coarse prominent mottles; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent fine and medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; 1 percent carbonate concretions and 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34832
    2Bss2—229 to 290 centimeters (90.2 to 114.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dry; clay; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent medium and coarse distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34833