IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duval
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979TX507001
  • User Pedon ID: 79TX507001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0330
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47063
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024
  • 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: 28.7888889
  • Std. Longitude: -99.6305542
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 10.4 km S of Batesville on FR 117 continue 4.6 km S on FR 1025 46 meters east in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX507—Zavala
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. W. Stevens and D. Arriaga
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, superactive, hyperthermic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duval
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/2014
  • Classifier - Gary Harris
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duval
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, hyperthermic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    137 - 203

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic materials

    0—38

    38—114

    137—203

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    —-

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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

    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01721. common fine roots
    A2—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01722. common fine roots
    Bt1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; clay bridges between sand grains and 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01723. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1191314; patchy - phpvsfiid 1191314
    Bt2—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; clay bridges between sand grains and 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent worm casts and 1 percent insect casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01724. few worm casts concentrations; few insects casts concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1191316; patchy - phpvsfiid 1191316
    Btk—91 to 114 centimeters (35.8 to 44.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 1 percent fine threadlike lime masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01725. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations
    Bk—114 to 137 centimeters (44.9 to 53.9 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 1 percent fine threadlike lime masses; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01726. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations
    Cr—137 to 203 centimeters (53.9 to 79.9 inches); white (5YR 8/1) interior, light gray (5YR 7/1) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P01727. Contains strata and pockets of yellowish red and strong brown sandstone that is hard but can be dug with bucket auger. Few pockets of reddish yellow sandy clay loam in upper part with frew seams of lime but sandstone is noncalcareous.