IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CROCKETT
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964TX257001
  • User Pedon ID: S1964TX257001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1964TX257001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4483
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40636
  • 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: 32.7927780
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2711105
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 225 feet W of center of intersection of FM Road 986 and 2 country roads, 4.2 miles N of the intersection of US Hwy. 80 and FM 986.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX257—Kaufman
  • MLRA: 86A—Texas Blackland Prairie, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX612—Kaufman and Rockwall Counties, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G.S. McKee, A. Newman, and T. Giddens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Udertic Paleustalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CROCKETT
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/17/1964 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    AVENA

    VICIA

    Avena

    Vicia

    oat

    vetch

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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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; hard, very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A34284. Contains numerous fibrous oat and vetch roots.
    A1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; hard, friable; 21.0 roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34285. Vertical distance of wavy boundary varies about 1' within a distance of 4-6'.
    B21t—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; 3 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) fine and medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 pores; clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A34286. Contains few fibrous roots; peds have occasional pores that can be seen with the naked eye; roots are more concentrated between peds but a few penetrate peds.; continuous - phpvsfiid 173779; continuous - phpvsfiid 173779
    B22t—69 to 119 centimeters (27.2 to 46.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; 21 percent medium faint mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; faint clay films; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34287. Mottles are light olive brown, yellowish brown, and reddish brown; roots are more concentrated in crevices.; continuous - phpvsfiid 173780; continuous - phpvsfiid 173780
    B23t—119 to 135 centimeters (46.9 to 53.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; clay; weak subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34288. Roots are mainly on ped surfaces.
    B3—135 to 155 centimeters (53.1 to 61.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist; clay loam; massive; extremely hard, very firm; pressure faces; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A34289. Soil matrix is noneffervescent with 10% HCl in upper part, but effervescent in the lower part; carbonate concretions are up to 10 mm in diameter; Fe-Mn concretions are soft and semihard.
    Cca—155 to 208 centimeters (61.0 to 81.9 inches); silty clay loam; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; 21 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A34290
    C2—208 to 234 centimeters (81.9 to 92.1 inches); 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A34291