IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX2911021
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX2911021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012TX2911021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7965
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72871
  • 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: 30.0505056
  • Std. Longitude: -94.6683056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX291—Liberty
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX291—Liberty County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30094-A6—Daisetta, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kenny Hall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morey
  • PSC - 22 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Labelle
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 22 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/9/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moderately weathered, loamy fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: relict meander belt on coastal plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Beaumont formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/9/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRIFO

    Trifolium

    clover

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    endosaturation

    0—59

    22—203

    59—203

    130—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

    0.2

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    19.8

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    130

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    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; massive; very hard, very firm; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 6.0 very fine tubular and 4.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries lining pores; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—22 to 59 centimeters (8.7 to 23.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 5.0 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 6 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries lining pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btkss1—59 to 92 centimeters (23.2 to 36.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films and 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent pressure faces; 2 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 7 percent fine faint 6/1 6/1, moist, and gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions with sharp boundaries lining pores and 15 percent fine prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 3 percent medium white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btkss2—92 to 130 centimeters (36.2 to 51.2 inches); 15 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and gray (2.5Y 6/1) clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent pressure faces; 2 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 25 percent prominent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 3 percent fine white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules and 12 percent medium white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btkssg1—130 to 181 centimeters (51.2 to 71.3 inches); 20 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) and N 7/1 (N 7/1) clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent pressure faces and 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 38 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 7 percent fine white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules and 20 percent medium white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btkssg2—181 to 203 centimeters (71.3 to 79.9 inches); light gray (N 7/0) clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine pores; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 12 percent pressure faces; 35 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 3 percent fine white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules and 4 percent medium white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules; fragments; 10 to 20 percent krotovinas (volume percent); noneffervescent.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. crawfish krotovinas filled with very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay