IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Falfurrias
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978TX047001
  • User Pedon ID: 78TX047001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0413
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45967
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 27.0125008
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1500015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Brooks County, TX 23 km S of Fulfurris on US 281 1.4 km W on ranch rd opposite fm 285 15 meters S into rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX047—Brooks

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, hyperthermic Typic Ustipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Falfurrias
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Falfurrias
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, hyperthermic Typic Ustipsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: dune
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1978 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—46

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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
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    1A11—0 to 46 centimeters (0.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sand, fine sand; weak prismatic, and structureless single grain; loose, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P02284. Prisms estimated 45 to 60 cm in horizontal dimension.; few fine roots
    1A12—46 to 107 centimeters (18.1 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sand, fine sand; weak prismatic, and structureless single grain; loose, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P02285. few fine roots
    1A21—107 to 198 centimeters (42.1 to 78.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, dry; fine sand, fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P02286. few fine roots
    1A22—198 to 302 centimeters (78.0 to 118.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, dry; fine sand, fine sand; 1 percent fine faint mottles; single grain; loose, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P02287. few fine roots; few fine faint mottles
    2B21t—302 to 307 centimeters (118.9 to 120.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam; 1 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) fine distinct and 11 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) medium distinct mottles; weak very coarse columnar, and weak subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds and prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 78P02288. Roots follow faces of columns.; few fine roots between peds; common medium distinct 10YR76 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR82 mottles
    2B22t—307 to 315 centimeters (120.9 to 124.0 inches); unknown texture, unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 78P02289
    2B23t—315 to 363 centimeters (124.0 to 142.9 inches); unknown texture, unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 78P02290