IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Garceno
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S02-TX427-001
  • User Pedon ID: 02TX427001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0176
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15687
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 26.5909729
  • Std. Longitude: -98.9963913
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the intersection of Loma Blanco Road and U.S. Highway 83 (4.0 miles north of Roma, Texas); 9.4 miles north on Loma Blanco Road, 0.5 mile east on Sanchez Road; 100 feet north of road in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX427—Starr
  • MLRA: 83C—Central Rio Grande Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX427—Starr County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ramiro Molina, Nathan Haile, Dennis Brezina, Maurice Jurena, Jamey Douglass
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Torrertic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Garceno
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Garceno
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Jackson Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AS-26
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 32
    • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1.5

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    121.6

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    90

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; weak fine granular structure; moderately hard, friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine and medium shell fragments in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00925
    Bk1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine carbonate masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartz fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00926
    Bk2—38 to 73 centimeters (15.0 to 28.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine tubular pores; 8 percent fine carbonate masses in matrix; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartz fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00927
    Bk3—73 to 102 centimeters (28.7 to 40.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00928
    Bk4—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 8 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 6 percent fine carbonate masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartz fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00929
    2Btk1—130 to 155 centimeters (51.2 to 61.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions and 6 percent fine carbonate masses in matrix and 1 percent fine shell fragments; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartz fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00930
    2Btk2—155 to 178 centimeters (61.0 to 70.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine carbonate masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartz fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N00931
    2BCyz—178 to 203 centimeters (70.1 to 79.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable; 5 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 8 percent fine distinct threadlike white (10YR 8/1), dry, salt masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartz fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 03N00932