IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burleson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963TX051090
  • User Pedon ID: S1963TX051090
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1963TX051090
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4578
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40730
  • 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: 30.4913883
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4505539
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: E 100 yards of Snook High School building and approximately 50 feet SE from S corner of yard fence.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX051—Burleson
  • MLRA: 87A—Texas Claypan Area, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX051—Burleson County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30096-D4—Snook, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hayward A. Moncrief
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts
  • 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 - Burleson
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2013
  • Classifier - Chance M. Robinson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burleson
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alkaline clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Microfeature: gilgai
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    ANGE

    ECHIN2

    Andropogon gerardii

    Echinocactus

    big bluestem

    echinocactus

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    free carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—18

    58—175

    97—175

    122—229

    175—

    —18—

    —117—

    —78—

    —107—

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0.2

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    77

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    90

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    A—0 to 58 centimeters (0.0 to 22.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay; weak granular, and strong very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A34919
    Bss—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine pores; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.3; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A34920
    Bkss1—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34921
    Bkss2—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay; 1 percent mottles; extremely hard; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34922
    BCkss—150 to 175 centimeters (59.1 to 68.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist; silty clay; 3 percent medium prominent mottles; extremely hard; distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34923
    2Ck—175 to 229 centimeters (68.9 to 90.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; massive; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # 40A34924. This is old alluvium much like that underlying Miller clay in the adjacent flood plain.