IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Talpa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003TX155001
  • User Pedon ID: 03TX155001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0782
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16208
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 34.0272217
  • Std. Longitude: -99.8813858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: FOARD COUNTY, TEXAS; FROM THE COURTHOUSE IN CROWELL, TEXAS; 9.4 MILES WEST ON U.S. HIGHWAY 70; 0.94 MILES NORTH ON FARM ROAD 2566; 0.6 MILE NORTH ON OIL FIELD ROAD; 480FEET WEST ; 100 FEET NORTH OF OIL FIELD ROAD IN RANGELAND.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX155—Foard
  • MLRA: 78—Central Rolling Red Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX155—Foard County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34099-A8—Vivian, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAG, DDR, RFG, CRC, ALS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Talpa
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2016
  • Classifier - Carlos J. Villarreal
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Talpa
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Calciustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2003
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous gravelly residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: dissected plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 36cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: C-4
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    36 - 40

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—36

    36—40

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    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

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    525

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; common (2.0) very fine and fine roots and common (1.0) medium roots; 3 percent fine prominent strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-36-78 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N03963; observed in pit, small
    Bk—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; flaggy clay loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; common (2.0) fine and medium roots; 5 percent carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 4 percent fine prominent strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; 4 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 26 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-230-310 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03964; observed in pit, small
    R—36 to 40 centimeters (14.2 to 15.7 inches); bedrock; indurated; fragments.; observed in pit, small