IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nusil
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976TX013001
  • User Pedon ID: 76TX013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4675
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41377
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 28.8130556
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3550000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atascosa County, Texas; from the junction of Texas Highway 97 and U.S. Highway 281 in Pleasanton, this pedon is located 12.8 miles south and 100 feet west, in abandoned cropland
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX013—Atascosa
  • MLRA: 83A—Northern Rio Grande Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX013—Atascosa County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jack W. Stevens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, active, hyperthermic Arenic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nusil
  • PSC - 76 to 126 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/2014
  • Classifier - Richard Gelnar
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nueces
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands over loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: inland, dissected coastal plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/15/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—76

    76—152

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A35531
    A—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A35532
    E—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35533
    Bt1—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint and 2 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and medium distinct and 2 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine and medium distinct and 2 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine and medium distinct and 2 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) fine and medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; faint clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35534
    Bt2—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint and 2 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine and medium distinct and 2 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; faint clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35535
    Bt3—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35536
    BC—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 5 percent carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # 40A35537