HOUSTON

Taxonomic class

Very-fine, smectitic, thermic Oxyaquic Hapluderts 

Parent material

Taylor marl and weathered Austin chalk alluvium

Topography

Nearly level

Geographic extent

Northeastern Texas

Use

Cotton, corn, wheat, and oats

Vegetation

Tall prairie grasses, mainly bluestem sod grass and bluestem bunchgrass

Climate

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