IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latium
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S83TX285004
  • User Pedon ID: S83TX285004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S83TX285004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82648
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 29.5976611
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1622139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Typical pedon of Greenvillw clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes; from Moulton, 2.4 miles northwest on Farm Road 1680 to the Old Moulton Church, 1 mile north on a gravel road, 0.38 mile east on a private road, and 100 feet south in a pasture.
  • 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: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Latium
  • 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

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/8/1983 (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 concentrations

    0—50

    33—90

    33—70

    50—170

    122—170

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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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1946
    A—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) insect casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1947
    Bw—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) insect casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1948
    Bk1—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) insect casts and 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1949
    Bk2—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent carbonate concretions and 10 percent carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1950
    Bk3—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches);, pale olive (5Y 6/3), moist; silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots in cracks; 10 percent carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 10 percent ; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1951
    Crk—122 to 171 centimeters (48.0 to 67.3 inches);, pale olive (5Y 6/3), moist; silty clay loam; carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent olive (5Y 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent carbonate nodules and carbonate masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # TAMU1952