IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palafox
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979TX479002
  • User Pedon ID: 79TX479002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0177
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47955
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 27.8083324
  • Std. Longitude: -99.8111115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Webb County, from junction of Del Mar Blvd and FM 1472 N of Laredo 46 km NW on FM 1472 15 meters E of fence in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX479—Webb

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Russell Sanders and Wayne Gabriel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, hyperthermic Ustollic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Palafox
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Garceno
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, hyperthermic Ustollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1979 (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

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    41—91

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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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    1A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00891. Surface has 1 inch surface crust.; common fine roots throughout
    1A1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00892. Surface has 1 inch surface crust.; common fine roots throughout
    1B21—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00893. few fine roots throughout
    1B22ca—41 to 107 centimeters (16.1 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent lime masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Not sampled.; common soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots throughout
    1B23ca—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Not sampled.; few soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots throughout
    1C—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay loam; massive; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent lime masses and 1 percent threadlike lime masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; common soft masses of lime concentrations; few soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots throughout