IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lake Charles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX1575068
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX1575068
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0980
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43231
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 29.4897500
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8263611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX157—Fort Bend
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Typic Hapluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lake Charles
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flat
  • Microfeature: circular gilgai
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/15/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 12.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 8.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04669; moist when described;
    Bw—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very few (8.0) roots; 5.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint pressure faces; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04670; moist when described;
    Bss—25 to 68 centimeters (9.8 to 26.8 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1) silty clay; weak coarse wedge parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very few (3.0) roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine cylindrical weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese nodules; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04671; moist when described;
    Bkss1—68 to 108 centimeters (26.8 to 42.5 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1) silty clay; weak coarse wedge parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very few (2.0) roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine cylindrical weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese nodules; 1 percent fine spherical moderately coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04672; moist when described;. carbonate nodules coated with brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) oxidized iron
    Bkss2—108 to 136 centimeters (42.5 to 53.5 inches); 80 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) and 15 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) silty clay; weak coarse wedge parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 28 cm with a width of 1 cm that extend above the horizon; 25 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine cylindrical weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese nodules; 2 percent fine spherical moderately coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04673; moist when described;. cracks filled with dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay
    Bkss3—136 to 178 centimeters (53.5 to 70.1 inches); 80 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate coarse wedge parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 42 cm with a width of 1 cm that extend above the horizon; 25 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries lining pores and 5 percent fine and medium distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/1) iron depletions with sharp boundaries on slickensides; 1 percent fine very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate masses and 2 percent fine and medium spherical moderately coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04674; moist when described;. cracks filled with dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay
    Bkss4—178 to 196 centimeters (70.1 to 77.2 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; strong coarse wedge parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 18 cm with a width of 1 cm that extend above the horizon; 35 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent fine and medium prominent light gray (5Y 7/1) iron depletions with sharp boundaries on slickensides; 1 percent fine spherical moderately coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules and 1 percent fine very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04675; moist when described;. cracks filled with dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay
    Bkss5—196 to 203 centimeters (77.2 to 79.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 0.1 very fine tubular pores; 5 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 7 cm with a width of 1 cm; 30 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 3 percent fine prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 20 percent medium and coarse prominent light gray (5Y 7/1) iron depletions with sharp boundaries on slickensides; 1 percent fine spherical moderately coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules and 1 percent fine very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3. Lab sample # 10N04676; moist when described;. cracks filled with dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay