IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houston Black
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956TX085004
  • User Pedon ID: S1956TX085004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4584
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40736
  • 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: 33.1713905
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4916687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: S 1.7 miles of Princeton on blacktop road to curve from E to S; thence 250 yards N on field road and 20 yards E of fence.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX085—Collin
  • MLRA: 86A—Texas Blackland Prairie, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX085—Collin County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Oakes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Pellusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • 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 - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1956
  • 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: 10/10/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; silty clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34959
    A12—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); gray (N 5/0), very dark gray (N 3/0), moist; clay; moderate and strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard; 3.0 very fine pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34960
    A13—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine pores; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments. Lab sample # 40A34961
    A14—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine pores; prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34962
    A15ca—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; 1 percent fine prominent mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 3 percent carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34963
    ACca—127 to 157 centimeters (50.0 to 61.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist; clay; 1 percent coarse and 21 percent fine faint mottles; weak subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine pores; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34964
    C—157 to 170 centimeters (61.8 to 66.9 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) and olive (5Y 5/3) clay; 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34965