IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Slidell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S99TX099002
  • User Pedon ID: S99TX099002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S99TX099002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99TX099002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87693
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 31.3611641
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7540436
  • Datum: WGS84

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sam Brown, Tom Cyprian, James Greenwade, Sidney Paulson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Slidell
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Slidell
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Colluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 33
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOCU

    BOSA

    NALE3

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bothriochloa saccharoides

    Nassella leucotricha

    sideoats grama

    silver bluestem

    Texas wintergrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—142

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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

    3

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    180

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    A1—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) interior clay; weak medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU6448; observed in trench
    A2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) interior, black (2.5Y 2.5/1) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 40 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-30 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU6449; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91641; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91641
    Bss—46 to 102 centimeters (18.1 to 40.2 inches); 60 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) interior and 40 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, 60 percent black (2.5Y 2.5/1) interior and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine vesicular pores; 50 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 4 percent fine distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-30 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU6450; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 91640; continuous - phpvsfiid 91640
    Bkss—102 to 142 centimeters (40.2 to 55.9 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, 70 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior and 30 percent 2.5Y 2/2 (2.5Y 2/2) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent faint black (10YR 2/1), dry, organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 50 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries and 10 percent medium distinct irregular olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries; 7 percent fine distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU6451; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 91642; continuous - phpvsfiid 91643; patchy - phpvsfiid 91642; continuous - phpvsfiid 91643
    Bk—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); 80 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior and 20 percent 2.5Y 5/8 (2.5Y 5/8) interior, 80 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior and 20 percent 2.5Y 4/8 (2.5Y 4/8) interior, moist; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine vesicular pores; 10 percent medium distinct irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries and 10 percent medium distinct irregular light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry, iron depletions with clear boundaries; 10 percent fine distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # TAMU6452; observed in trench