IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): League
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX0713684
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX0713684
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010TX0713684
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0438
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58637
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 29.6986675
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5317230
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Middleton Ranch
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX071—Chambers
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX071—Chambers County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 29094-F5—Oyster Bayou, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Wiedenfeld, K. Hall, S. Kloesel, J. Bushong
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Oxyaquic Hapluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - League
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - League (micro-high)
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: relic backswamp
  • Microfeature: microhigh gilgai
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Beaumont formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/2010 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap

    Bss1

    Bss2

    Bss3

    Bss4

    9999

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap

    Bss1

    Bss2

    Bss3

    Bss4

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap

    Bss1

    Bss2

    Bss3

    Bss4

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANGL2

    PASPA2

    SALIX

    SENNA

    Andropogon glomeratus

    Paspalum

    Salix

    Senna

    bushy bluestem

    crowngrass

    willow

    senna

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    0—19

    19—113

    19—113

    —19—

    —94—

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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

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries lining pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02271; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bss1—19 to 40 centimeters (7.5 to 15.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate medium wedge parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 2 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries lining pores and 5 percent medium dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02272; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bss2—40 to 73 centimeters (15.7 to 28.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay; moderate fine wedge parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix and 30 percent medium olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02273; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bss3—73 to 98 centimeters (28.7 to 38.6 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) clay; strong medium wedge parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent pressure faces and 35 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 20 percent coarse brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix and 20 percent medium brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N02274; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bss4—98 to 113 centimeters (38.6 to 44.5 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) clay; strong medium wedge parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent pressure faces; 2 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 20 percent coarse brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 11N02275; moist when described; observed in trench