IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Besner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S81TX225002
  • User Pedon ID: S81TX225002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S81TX225002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45684
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 31.5348606
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1677704
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Davy Crockett National Forest. About 4 miles southeast of the community of Weches.
  • Map Unit: MpA—Mollville-Besner complex, 0 to 1 percent slopes, frequently ponded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX225—Houston
  • MLRA: 133B—Western Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: 16obsolete—Little Rock, AR
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX225—Houston County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dolezel,Fuchs,Holt,Brockmann,Steptoe,Gray,Hallmark,Peters
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Besner
  • PSC - 117 to 167 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cart
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Pleistocene Terrace group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic materials

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    91—203

    91—203

    117—234

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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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    90

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 8.0 medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1120
    E1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 8.0 medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1121
    E2—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); fine sandy loam; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1122
    E3—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 8.0 medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1123
    EB—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 0.9 medium roots; 2 percent distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1124
    B/Et—117 to 155 centimeters (46.1 to 61.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.9 medium roots; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1125
    B/Etx—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak subangular blocky structure; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1126
    B't—203 to 234 centimeters (79.9 to 92.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, clay depletions on faces of peds and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay depletions on faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # TAMU1127