IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Browndell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009TX241001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009TX241001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009TX241001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0435
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28331
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 31.0381451
  • Std. Longitude: -94.1825027
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX241—Jasper
  • MLRA: 133B—Western Coastal Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX611—Jasper and Newton Counties, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31094-A2—Ebenezer, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Griffith, Bolin, Sabo
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, thermic, shallow Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Browndell
  • PSC - 10 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Browndell
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from volcanic sandstone
  • Landscape: hills on coastal plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified at 66cm
  • Geology: Catahoula formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 28
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    CHLAS

    ILVO

    PITA

    QUST

    SCSCD2

    SOLID

    Chasmanthium laxum var. sessiliflorum

    Ilex vomitoria

    Pinus taeda

    Quercus stellata

    Schizachyrium scoparium ssp. divergens

    Solidago

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    yaupon

    loblolly pine

    post oak

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    goldenrod

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    41 - 66

    66 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—41

    41—66

    66—

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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

    2.5

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    46

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    125

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N01809; observed in pit, small
    Bt—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay; 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) coarse distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N01810
    Cr—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) ; 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) medium prominent mottles; massive; very hard, very firm; 5 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N01811
    R—66 to 203 centimeters (26.0 to 79.9 inches); ; fragments.