IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keltys
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S84TX225003
  • User Pedon ID: S84TX225003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S84TX225003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82667
  • Print Date: 9/25/2024

    • 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: 31.3576167
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0813583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 miles east on Texas Highway 7 from Ratcliff, 2.4 miles south on Enon Cemetery Road (County Road 4740), 100 feet west of road.
  • Map Unit: KeB—Keltys fine sandy loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX225—Houston
  • MLRA: 133B—Western Coastal Plain
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31095-C1—Centralia, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keltys
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keltys
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Oxyaquic Glossudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy marine deposits over mudstone
  • Landform: interfluve, coastal plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Hallmark, Crenwelge, Lane, Brockman, Steptoe, Gray
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—46

    15—46

    46—160

    64—127

    160—203

    —46—

    —31—

    —114—

    —63—

    —43—
    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

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; common medium roots and common fine roots; common fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU2047
    E1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; common medium roots and common fine roots; common fine pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU2048
    E2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common medium roots and common fine roots; common medium pores; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 3 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU2049
    Bt/E—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 30 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; common medium roots; common medium pores; clay films; 3 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of reduced iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU2050
    E/Bt1—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; common medium roots and common fine roots; few fine pores; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU2051
    E/Bt2—84 to 127 centimeters (33.1 to 50.0 inches); 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; common medium roots and common fine roots; few fine pores; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; medium distinct insect casts; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # TAMU2052
    B't/E—127 to 145 centimeters (50.0 to 57.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, very firm; few fine roots; few fine pores; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of reduced iron; fine barite crystals and medium barite crystals; fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # TAMU2053
    C/Bt—145 to 160 centimeters (57.1 to 63.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; hard, very firm; few fine roots; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 3 percent medium faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; insect casts and fine barite crystals and medium barite crystals; fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # TAMU2054
    2C—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; structureless massive; very hard, very firm; few fine roots in cracks; clay films; fine barite crystals and medium barite crystals; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU2055