IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Heiden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S78TX027008
  • User Pedon ID: S78TX027008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S78TX027008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45644
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 31.0016384
  • Std. Longitude: -97.2722244
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Heidenheimer, 1.5 miles southeast on Texas Highway 36, 0.75 mile north and east on county road, and 200 feet north of road in field.
  • Map Unit: HeB—Heiden clay, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX027—Bell
  • MLRA: 86A—Texas Blackland Prairie, Northern Part
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX027—Bell County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31097-A3—Temple, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wilding, Rivers and Ramsey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Heiden
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2014
  • Classifier - Chance M. Robinson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Heiden
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Udic Chromusterts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: marl
  • Landscape: Dissected plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: shale, calcareous at 140cm
  • Geology: Lower Taylor Marl group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    140 - 462

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

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    slickensides

    cambic horizon

    densic materials

    densic contact

    0—97

    0—462

    53—140

    97—140

    140—462

    140—140

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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

    2

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    168

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very friable; 1.0 fine roots; ; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated chert fragments and 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU408
    A—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated chert fragments and 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU412
    Bss1—53 to 97 centimeters (20.9 to 38.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated chert fragments and 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU413, TAMU414
    Bss2—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated chert fragments and 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU415
    Bss3—117 to 140 centimeters (46.1 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 2 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU416
    Cd1—140 to 213 centimeters (55.1 to 83.9 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist; clay, weathered bedrock; massive; extremely hard, very friable; 2 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU420, TAMU421
    Cd2—213 to 345 centimeters (83.9 to 135.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), light gray (10YR 5/8), moist; clay, weathered bedrock; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm; 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU422, TAMU426
    Cd3—345 to 462 centimeters (135.8 to 181.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; clay, weathered bedrock; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm; 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # TAMU427, TAMU428