IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caradan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963TX049090
  • User Pedon ID: S1963TX049090
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4565
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40717
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 31.9447231
  • Std. Longitude: -98.8683319
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4.5 miles SE of May on the Eppley farm; approximately 200 yards N of residence; 50 yards into field on W side of road.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX049—Brown
  • MLRA: 85—Grand Prairie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX602—Brown and Mills Counties, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harvey Oakes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 90
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Caradan
  • PSC - 25 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mesa
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/3/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak platy, and massive; extremely hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34839
    A11—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very plastic; distinct pressure faces and distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments. Lab sample # 40A34840
    AC—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; pressure faces and slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34841
    C&R—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34842
    R—81 to 89 centimeters (31.9 to 35.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A34843