IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frelsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S83TX285003
  • User Pedon ID: S83TX285003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S83TX285003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82647
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 29.5732861
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0583750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Hallettsville, 8.5 miles north on US Highway 77, about 8 miles west on Farm Road 532 Komensky, 0.7 mile west on Farm Road 532, about 0.23 mile north on a private road, and 100 feet west in a field.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX285—Lavaca
  • MLRA: 86B—Texas Blackland Prairie, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX285—Lavaca County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 29097-E1—Komensky, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hallmark, Comera, Lane
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Calciusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frelsburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Calciusterts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • 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


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous clayey residuum
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: dissected ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/1983 (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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    0—120

    15—120

    15—230

    74—182

    74—137

    137—182

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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

    2.4

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    —

    101.8

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; firm, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1938
    Bss1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent very fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1939
    Bss2—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1940
    Bss3—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; 10 percent coarse carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1941
    Bkss—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent medium faint gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; 20 percent coarse carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1942
    BCkss—119 to 137 centimeters (46.9 to 53.9 inches);, dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent fine faint gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1943
    CBkss—137 to 182 centimeters (53.9 to 71.7 inches);, light gray (10YR 7/1), moist; clay; weak coarse angular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately plastic; 1 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent coarse carbonate concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1944
    Cssy—182 to 203 centimeters (71.7 to 79.9 inches);, light gray (10YR 7/1), moist; clay; weak coarse angular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent selenite crystals and 1 percent gypsum masses; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1945