IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Branyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S81TX145001
  • User Pedon ID: S81TX145001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S81TX145001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S81TX145001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45671
  • 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: 31.1374722
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0365829
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Werner Fuchs Farm. From Travis, 2.7 miles west on Farm Road 431, and about 1400 feet south in cotton field.
  • Map Unit: 13—Branyon clay, 0 to 1 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.T.Hallmark, T.Moore, B.Ramsey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Branyon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Branyon
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Alluvium member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GOSSY

    Gossypium

    cotton

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

    mollic epipedon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    0—163

    46—218

    218—333

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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

    1

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    135

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    150

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1096
    A—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1097
    Bss1—46 to 99 centimeters (18.1 to 39.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 2 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1098
    Bss2—99 to 163 centimeters (39.0 to 64.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1099
    Bss3—163 to 191 centimeters (64.2 to 75.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1100
    Bss4—191 to 218 centimeters (75.2 to 85.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 2 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; 1 percent by volume shell fragments fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1101
    Ck—218 to 244 centimeters (85.8 to 96.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; massive; extremely hard, very firm; 20 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine carbonate concretions and 1 percent fine salt crystals and 1 percent fine threadlike salt masses and 5 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1102
    C—244 to 333 centimeters (96.1 to 131.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; massive; extremely hard, very firm; 20 percent medium distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine carbonate masses and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1103