IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Francitas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970TX057025
  • User Pedon ID: S1970TX057025
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970TX057025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4558
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40710
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 28.6833324
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4330521
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: E-NE of Port Lavaca 9.3 miles on TX Highway 35 to intersection of Farm Road 2143; 4.6 miles E on Farm Road 2143 to TX Highway 172; 1 mile E on paved county road; .38 miles S on paved county road; 800 feet E of county road on a private road; 80 feet N of private road in native range.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX057—Calhoun
  • MLRA: 150B—Gulf Coast Saline Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX057—Calhoun County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. C. Mowery
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Oxyaquic Hapluderts
  • 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 #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Francitas
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Francitas
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Microfeature: gilgai
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/27/1970 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SPSP

    Spartina spartinae

    gulf cordgrass

    —

    —

    —
    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

    —

    —

    —

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 41 centimeters (0.0 to 16.1 inches); N 2/1 (N 2/1), N 3/1 (N 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; strong fine angular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34796
    Bss—41 to 102 centimeters (16.1 to 40.2 inches); N 2/1 (N 2/1), N 3/1 (N 3/1), dry; clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent pressure faces on faces of peds and 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34797
    Bkss1—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; clay; weak angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent pressure faces on faces of peds and 15 percent slickensides (geogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34798
    Bkss2—127 to 180 centimeters (50.0 to 70.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; clay; 3 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium distinct mottles; weak angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34799
    2Ck—180 to 231 centimeters (70.9 to 90.9 inches); gray (5Y 6/1), light gray (5Y 7/1) and pink (7.5YR 7/4) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent coarse carbonate concretions and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34800
    3Ck—231 to 279 centimeters (90.9 to 109.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; loamy very fine sand; massive; friable; 1 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions and 3 percent fine faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 40A34801