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Birome soil in Tarrant County, TX (1981)

The Birome series consists of moderately deep, well drained, slowly permeable soils that formed in iron enriched loamy and clayey sediments. These gently sloping to moderately steep soils are on low hills and ridges. Slopes range from 2 to 20 percent.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Ultic Paleustalfs

 

The solum thickness and depth to sandstone ranges 20 to 40 inches. Ironstone and sandstone pebbles and sandstone fragments less than an inch to 3 inches thick and 3 to about 10 inches across the long axis cover 0 to 20 percent of the soil surface. Pebbles and fragments comprise 0 to 35 percent of the epipedon and 0 to 10 percent in the argillic horizon.

 

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained; rapid runoff; slow permeability.

 

USE AND VEGETATION: Mostly in wooded pasture. Native vegetation consists of little bluestem, purpletop, and shrubs with an overstory of post oak and blackjack oak.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Central Texas mainly in the East Cross Timbers land resource area. The soils are of moderate

extent.

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BIROME.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#birome

 

For additional information about the Soil Survey area, visit:

archive.org/details/tarrantTX1981

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Uploaded on December 24, 2010
Taken in January 2010