Major Land Resource Area 087A
Texas Claypan Area, Southern Part
Accessed: 11/21/2024
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and stream terraces
- Greater than 15 percent gravels, sandstone, and ironstone by volume in the surface and/or subsoil
- Greater than 15 percent gravels (0.08 to 3 inches) by volume in surface and/or subsoil
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and stream terraces
- Greater than 15 percent gravels, sandstone, and ironstone by volume in the surface and/or subsoil
- Greater than 15 percent sandstone and ironstone (greater than 3 inches) by volume in surface and/or subsoil
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and stream terraces
- All others
- Loamy surface soils with an abrupt textural change to a clayey subsoil 5 to 15 inches deep
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- Uplands and stream terraces
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- Very deep, reddish‐colored, loamy and clayey soils that are highly vegetatively productive
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and stream terraces
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- Soils with sandy or sandy loam surface textures less than 40 inches deep
- Sandy and sandy loam surface is less than 20 inches with a gradual increase in subsoil clay content
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and stream terraces
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- Soils with sandy or sandy loam surface textures less than 40 inches deep
- Sandy surface is greater than 20 inches, but less than 40 inches
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and stream terraces
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- Soils with sandy surface textures greater than 40 inches deep
- Sandy surface is greater than 40 inches above an increase in clay content
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and stream terraces
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- Soils with sandy surface textures greater than 40 inches deep
- No increase in subsurface clay, soils are sandy to 80 inches or greater
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Key Characteristics
- Bottomlands and flood plains
- Bottomlands and draws with sandy soils
- Draws with sandy soils beginning at drainageways
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Key Characteristics
- Bottomlands and flood plains
- Bottomlands and draws with sandy soils
- Bottomlands with sandy soils
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Key Characteristics
- Bottomlands and flood plains
- Bottomlands with loamy and clayey soils
- Bottomlands with loamy soils
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Key Characteristics
- Bottomlands and flood plains
- Bottomlands with loamy and clayey soils
- Bottomlands with clayey soils
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