IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VALERA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 63TX327002
  • User Pedon ID: 63TX327002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4529
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40681
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 30.8727778
  • Std. Longitude: -100.0950000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX327—Menard
  • MLRA: 81B—Edwards Plateau, Central Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX327—Menard County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30100-G1—Fort McKavett, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. C. Dean
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - VALERA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillslope on dissected plateau
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/25/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    0.6

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    659.9

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    283

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; 0.5 fine pores; worm casts; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear boundary.
    A2—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual boundary.
    A3—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual boundary.
    Bk—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; abrupt boundary.
    Bkm—81 to 89 centimeters (31.9 to 35.0 inches); cemented material; fragments; gradual boundary.
    R—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.