Bowie soil series
Soil profile of Bowie fine sandy loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes. Bowie soils have a fine sandy loam surface over a sandy clay loam subsoil that contains plinthite. (Soil Survey of San Augustine and Sabine Counties, Texas; by Kirby Griffith, Natural Resources Conservation Service).
The Bowie series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in loamy Coastal Plain deposits on the Queen City, Reklaw, Cook Mountain, Sparta, Cockfield and Carrizo Sand Formations. These very gently sloping to moderately sloping soils are on interfluves. Slopes range from 1 to 8 percent but are dominantly 1 to 5 percent. Mean annual air temperature is about 18 degrees C (65 degrees F), and mean annual precipitation is about 1270 mm (50 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Plinthic Paleudults
Soil Moisture: An udic soil moisture regime. The soil moisture control section is not dry in any part for more than 90 days in normal years.
Mean annual soil temperature: 16 to 21 degrees C (61 to 70 degrees F)
Depth to argillic horizon: 5 to 51 cm (2 to 20 in)
Thickness of solum: 152 to more than 203 cm (60 to more than 80 in)
Depth to redox concentrations: 25 cm to 173 cm (10 to 68 in)
Depth to episaturation: 107 to 152 cm (42 to 60 in)
Depth to albic materials: 114 to 173 cm (45 to 68 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average)
Clay content in the Control Section: 18 to 30 percent
Silt plus very fine sand : 30 to 60 percent
Very fine sand and fragments up to 8 cm (3 in) in diameter: 15 to 45 percent of sand fraction
Cation Exchange Capacity: 6.0 to 18.0 meg/100 gram of soil.
USE AND VEGETATION: The principal use is for pasture and forest. Some areas are used for growing corn, peanuts, sweet potatoes, peaches, watermelons and other vegetables or fruit crops. Pasture is mainly bermudagrass or bahiagrass. Forests consist of loblolly and shortleaf pines, sweetgum, red oak, and hickory trees with tall and midgrasses.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Land Resource Region P, MLRA 133A and 133B; The series is of large extent, over 1 million acres.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/sanaugus...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BOWIE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#bowie
Bowie soil series
Soil profile of Bowie fine sandy loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes. Bowie soils have a fine sandy loam surface over a sandy clay loam subsoil that contains plinthite. (Soil Survey of San Augustine and Sabine Counties, Texas; by Kirby Griffith, Natural Resources Conservation Service).
The Bowie series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in loamy Coastal Plain deposits on the Queen City, Reklaw, Cook Mountain, Sparta, Cockfield and Carrizo Sand Formations. These very gently sloping to moderately sloping soils are on interfluves. Slopes range from 1 to 8 percent but are dominantly 1 to 5 percent. Mean annual air temperature is about 18 degrees C (65 degrees F), and mean annual precipitation is about 1270 mm (50 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Plinthic Paleudults
Soil Moisture: An udic soil moisture regime. The soil moisture control section is not dry in any part for more than 90 days in normal years.
Mean annual soil temperature: 16 to 21 degrees C (61 to 70 degrees F)
Depth to argillic horizon: 5 to 51 cm (2 to 20 in)
Thickness of solum: 152 to more than 203 cm (60 to more than 80 in)
Depth to redox concentrations: 25 cm to 173 cm (10 to 68 in)
Depth to episaturation: 107 to 152 cm (42 to 60 in)
Depth to albic materials: 114 to 173 cm (45 to 68 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average)
Clay content in the Control Section: 18 to 30 percent
Silt plus very fine sand : 30 to 60 percent
Very fine sand and fragments up to 8 cm (3 in) in diameter: 15 to 45 percent of sand fraction
Cation Exchange Capacity: 6.0 to 18.0 meg/100 gram of soil.
USE AND VEGETATION: The principal use is for pasture and forest. Some areas are used for growing corn, peanuts, sweet potatoes, peaches, watermelons and other vegetables or fruit crops. Pasture is mainly bermudagrass or bahiagrass. Forests consist of loblolly and shortleaf pines, sweetgum, red oak, and hickory trees with tall and midgrasses.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Land Resource Region P, MLRA 133A and 133B; The series is of large extent, over 1 million acres.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/sanaugus...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BOWIE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#bowie