IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Laewest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955TX481090
  • User Pedon ID: S1955TX481090
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4556
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40708
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 29.2369442
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1922226
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 5 miles N of El Campo; .5 miles E of Pierce on S side of road to Pierce Ranch headquarters; 50 feet S of road in native pasture.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX481—Wharton
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX481—Wharton County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. C. Mowery
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Typic Pelluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 90
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Laewest
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lake Charles
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    A11—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay, silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak granular structure; very firm, very sticky; 21.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34785
    A12—31 to 76 centimeters (12.2 to 29.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay, silty clay; very fine and fine angular blocky, and very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky; 3.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34786
    A13g—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34787
    Ac1g—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches); clay; very firm, very sticky; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34788
    AC2—147 to 173 centimeters (57.9 to 68.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay; coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34789
    C1—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A34789
    C2—203 to 229 centimeters (79.9 to 90.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A34790