IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Heiden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S78TX145001
  • User Pedon ID: S78TX145001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S78TX145001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45650
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 31.0732498
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0682755
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Barclay, 1.7 miles east on Texas Highway 53, and 200 feet north of road in cropland.
  • Map Unit: 29—Heiden clay, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX145—Falls
  • MLRA: 86A—Texas Blackland Prairie, Northern Part
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX145—Falls County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31097-A1—Westphalia, 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 - 10/13/1978
  • 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 132cm
  • Geology: Upper Taylor Marl group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    132 - 305

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

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    slickensides

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    densic materials

    0—51

    0—305

    15—99

    51—132

    51—132

    132—132

    132—305

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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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    —

    150

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    70

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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; very hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated chert fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU457
    A—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 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 firm; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated chert fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU458
    Bss1—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent salt masses and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions and 1 percent fine carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated chert fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU460
    Bss2—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions and 1 percent fine carbonate masses and 1 percent fine salt masses and 1 percent fine threadlike salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU461
    BCss—99 to 132 centimeters (39.0 to 52.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/4), olive (5Y 5/4), moist; clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions and 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine salt masses and 1 percent fine threadlike salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU462
    Cd1—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches);, light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm; 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU466
    Cd2—152 to 305 centimeters (59.8 to 120.1 inches);, light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm; 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # TAMU467, TAMU468, TAMU469