IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bernard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955TX157091
  • User Pedon ID: S1955TX157091
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955TX157091
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4504
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40656
  • Print Date: 1/27/2025

    • 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: 29.5552769
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7783356
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.8 miles SE of Rosenberg, 0.7 miles NW of a county road and 50 feet N of a field road in the corner of a native pasture.
  • 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 Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 91
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bernard
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bernard
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    PADI3

    PAPL3

    Paspalum dilatatum

    Paspalum plicatulum

    dallisgrass

    brownseed paspalum

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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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    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular, and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky; 21.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34430
    B1tg—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; 1 percent fine mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34431
    B21tg—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34432. The strong brown mottles are associated with ferromanganese concretions.
    B22tg—74 to 124 centimeters (29.1 to 48.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; 1 percent fine faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34433
    B23tg—124 to 155 centimeters (48.8 to 61.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; 1 percent fine mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky; 21 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34434
    IICca—155 to 183 centimeters (61.0 to 72.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dry; silty clay; 1 percent distinct mottles; massive; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34435. Not as firm, sticky, or hard as 3 horizons above.