IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arenosa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992TX0519001
  • User Pedon ID: S1992TX051001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S92TX051001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45722
  • 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: 30.5125370
  • Std. Longitude: -96.7988968
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Burleson County, Texas; 4.3 miles southwest on Texas Highway 21 from its intersection with Texas Highway 36 in Caldwell, Texas; 3.4 miles northwest on Farm Road 908; site is 160 feet north of road in wooded rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX051—Burleson
  • MLRA: 86B—Texas Blackland Prairie, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX051—Burleson County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30096-E7—Chriesman, Texas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: soil survey staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Thermic, uncoated Ustic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: 2005 Burleson County Soil Survey
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arenosa
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2012
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arenosa
  • Classificaton Date - 2/19/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: inland dissected coastal plain
  • Landform: broad ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Sparta Sand formation of the Claiborne Group group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/19/2010 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    0—13

    165—203

    —13—

    —38—

    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

    1.3

    151.2

    158

    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU4477
    C1—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU4478
    C2—51 to 109 centimeters (20.1 to 42.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/4), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU4479
    C3—109 to 165 centimeters (42.9 to 65.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU4480
    C4—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; fine sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter. Lab sample # TAMU4481