IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): League
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S83TX291005
  • User Pedon ID: S83TX291005
  • User Site Association ID: FY2011_Bushong_Documentation
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S83TX291005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45638
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 29.9267778
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8892667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX291—Liberty
  • MLRA: 150A—Gulf Coast Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX291—Liberty County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 29094-H8—Sheeks, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hallmark, Comerma, Brockmann, Griffith, Feuerbacher, Holland
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Oxyaquic Dystruderts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - League
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beaumont
  • Classificaton Date - 3/16/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey fluviomarine deposits
  • Landscape: relict meander belt on flat coastal plain
  • Landform: backswamp
  • Microfeature: gilgai
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Beaumont formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/16/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; 28 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 37 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 7.0 very fine roots and 7.0 fine roots; 20 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries lining pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1891; observed in pit, small
    Bssg1—20 to 64 centimeters (7.9 to 25.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; 22 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine pores; 15 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1892; observed in pit, small
    Bssg2—64 to 119 centimeters (25.2 to 46.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; 19 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine pores; 60 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries lining pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1893; observed in pit, small
    Bssg3—119 to 145 centimeters (46.9 to 57.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; 23 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 46 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 60 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1894; observed in pit, small
    Bssg4—145 to 170 centimeters (57.1 to 66.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) clay; 23 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 46 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 60 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1895; observed in pit, small
    Bkssg—170 to 211 centimeters (66.9 to 83.1 inches); variegated gray (10YR 5/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 32 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 39 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 60 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent medium iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent coarse carbonate masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter. Lab sample # TAMU1896; observed in pit, small