IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Slidell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX0350006
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX0350006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX0350006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0994
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43216
  • 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: 31.8391285
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7317963
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX035—Bosque
  • MLRA: 85—Grand Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31097-G6—Sugarloaf Mountain, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JRJ, SCP, GWH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Calcic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Slidell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Calcic Haplusterts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/2011 (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

    ANGE

    PAVI2

    SONU2

    Andropogon gerardii

    Panicum virgatum

    Sorghastrum nutans

    big bluestem

    switchgrass

    Indiangrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    slickensides

    calcic horizon

    0—125

    16—125

    125—203

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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

    0.5

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    80

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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; 43 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; ; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04751
    Bss1—16 to 56 centimeters (6.3 to 22.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04752
    Bss2—56 to 107 centimeters (22.0 to 42.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; 46 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04753
    Bkss—107 to 125 centimeters (42.1 to 49.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay; 47 percent clay; strong medium wedge structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 25 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04754
    Bk1—125 to 148 centimeters (49.2 to 58.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist; clay; 43 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04755
    Bk2—148 to 203 centimeters (58.3 to 79.9 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; clay; 40 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 10N04756