IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tarpley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980TX333002
  • User Pedon ID: 80TX333001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0102
  • 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: 31.4008331
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3713913
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 23.2 km SE on Farm Rd. 572 2.3 km on unpaved Rd. E on pasture Rd. 73 meters to top of flat Mt 146 meters SE in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX333—Mills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Lane J. Williams D. Clower E. Bearden L. Kiniry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, thermic Lithic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tarpley
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tarpley
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, thermic Lithic Vertic Ar
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00525. From 5 to 10% surface cover of limestone and chert fragments from 1 to 50 cm across. Cobbles and stone in this horizon. Vertical cracks 1 to 2.5 cm wide extend through the horizon when dry.; many very fine and fine roots
    1B21t—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dry; clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky, and strong fine and medium blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00526. 5% limestone and chert fragments from 0.2 to 50 cm across. Vertical cracks 1 to 2.5 cm wide extend through horizon when dry.; common very fine and fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 214846; continuous - phpvsfiid 214846
    1B22t—18 to 45 centimeters (7.1 to 17.7 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior, dry; clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong medium blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00527. Few fragments of chert mostly less than 1 cm across. When dry vertical cracks 1 to 2.5 cm wide extend to the bedrock. Bottom 2 cm contains few limestone pebbles that have a 1 mm CaCO3 pendant on lower side these crush.; common very fine and fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 214847; continuous - phpvsfiid 214847
    1R—45 to 60 centimeters (17.7 to 23.6 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Hard grayish limestone bedrock.