IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Denton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963TX099003
  • User Pedon ID: S1963TX099003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4515
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40667
  • 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: 31.5505562
  • Std. Longitude: -97.6288910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.5 miles NW of Coryell City (N on gravel road 0.5 miles, and 100 yards in field on W side of road).
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX099—Coryell
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX099—Coryell County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31097-E6—Turnersville, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Stout
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, carbonatic, thermic Udic Calciustolls
  • 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Denton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Denton
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or marly clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone and shale at 132cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/1963 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    132 - 163

    - 31 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—33

    33—94

    74—94

    132—163

    —33—

    —61—

    —20—

    —31—
    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

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    307

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay; weak and moderate very fine granular structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky; 21 percent worm casts; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A34519. Upper 1.5" is a soft mulch of flattened angular particles.
    A1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay; weak and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, moderately sticky; 0.5 fine pores; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A34520
    A2—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34521
    2A3—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34522
    2Btk—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak angular blocky, and moderate very fine angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent worm casts and 3 percent very fine and fine carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34523
    2Bk—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; silty clay loam; weak angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 30 percent carbonate masses; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34524
    C—94 to 132 centimeters (37.0 to 52.0 inches); silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 3 percent clay films; 5 percent carbonate masses and 1 percent worm casts; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A34525
    R—132 to 163 centimeters (52.0 to 64.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34526