IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frelsburg

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S83TX285002

User Pedon ID: S83TX285002

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - TAMU

Lab Pedon # - S83TX285002

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82646

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: 29.5705222

Std. Longitude: -97.0447000

Datum: WGS84

Location Description: Typical pedon of Frelsburg clay, 1 to 3 percent slopes; 9 miles north of Hallettsville on U.S. Highway 77, about 8 miles west on Farm Road 532, about 500 feet east of the Komensky store in an area of rangeland, halfway between a microdepression and a microknoll.

State: Texas

County: TX285—Lavaca

PEDON

Describers Name: Hallmark, Comera, Lane

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Calciusterts

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: OSD pedon

Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site

Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Frelsburg (flagged as OSD)

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 10/31/2012

Classifier - Richard Reid

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - ustic

Moisture Subclass - udic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Frelsburg

Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Calciusterts

Taxon Kind - series

Classificaton Date - 9/4/2012

Classifier - A Stahnke

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - ustic

Moisture SUBClass - udic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

Certification Status: certified

QC Status: level 1

QA Status: level 1

SITE

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 12/7/1983 (actual site observation date)

Data Collector: Hallmark, Comerma, Lane, Brockman, Hyde, Miller, others

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon cambic horizon redox concentrations slickensides secondary carbonates redox depletions with chroma 2 or less calcic horizon	0—20 20—52 20—231 52—231 91—181 91—132 91—181	—- —- —- —- —- —- —-

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
—	—	—	—	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine granular structure; firm, moderately plastic; 5.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1931

Bk—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1932

Bkss1—51 to 91 centimeters (20.1 to 35.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1933

Bkss2—91 to 132 centimeters (35.8 to 52.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions; 10 percent carbonate masses and 10 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1934

Bkss3—132 to 156 centimeters (52.0 to 61.4 inches); 2.5Y (2.5Y/),, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent carbonate concretions and 10 percent carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1935

Bkss4—156 to 180 centimeters (61.4 to 70.9 inches); 2.5Y (2.5Y/),, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent medium carbonate masses and 1 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1936

BCkss—180 to 203 centimeters (70.9 to 79.9 inches); 2.5Y (2.5Y/),, light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist; clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # TAMU1937