IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eckrant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX0350005
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX0350005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX0350005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0993
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43215
  • 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: 31.6997948
  • Std. Longitude: -97.6130600
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX035—Bosque
  • MLRA: 85—Grand Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31097-F5—Mosheim, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sidney Paulson, John Sackett, and Will Tripp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, superactive, thermic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eckrant
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, superactive, thermic Lithic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 27 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 27cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    AMPS

    CELTI

    CRTE4

    CRTE4

    GRSQ

    HELIA3

    HOPU

    JUNIP

    NALE3

    OPUNT

    QUTU2

    QUVI

    RHUS

    ULCR

    Ambrosia psilostachya

    Celtis

    Croton texensis

    Croton texensis

    Grindelia squarrosa

    Helianthus

    Hordeum pusillum

    Juniperus

    Nassella leucotricha

    Opuntia

    Quercus turbinella

    Quercus virginiana

    Rhus

    Ulmus crassifolia

    Cuman ragweed

    hackberry

    Texas croton

    Texas croton

    curlycup gumweed

    sunflower

    little barley

    juniper

    Texas wintergrass

    pricklypear

    Sonoran scrub oak

    live oak

    sumac

    cedar elm

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    27 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—27

    27—

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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

    1

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    286

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    350

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04750
    Bw—10 to 27 centimeters (3.9 to 10.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), moist; very stony clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-?-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; abrupt smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 682681; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 682681
    R—27 centimeters (10.6 inches); bedrock; massive; fragments.