IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Castell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: fine-loamy
  • User Site ID: S1982TX299003
  • User Pedon ID: 82TX299003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0852
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51638
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 30.8149833
  • Std. Longitude: -98.8253361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: C. C. Smith Ranch; from intersection of Texas Highway 16 and Texas Highway 29, 8 miles west on Texas Highway 29, 4.6 miles north on county road, 300 feet east on side slope of low ridge. Llano County, TX; about 5 km (3.1 miles) S of Valley Spring, 50 meters (164 feet) E of road and 60 meters (197 feet) N of side road.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX299—Llano
  • MLRA: 82—Texas Central Basin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. J. Turner, C. L. Girdner, W. C. Coburn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Castell
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Castell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Ultic Paleustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1982 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    81 - 108

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—30

    30—81

    81—108

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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

    2

    —

    —

    390

    —

    45

    107

    —

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    19

    28

    9

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    A1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loamy sand; moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04363. common fine quartz and gniess fragments
    A2—11 to 30 centimeters (4.3 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loamy sand; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04364. common fine quartz and gniess pebbles
    Bt1—30 to 42 centimeters (11.8 to 16.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04365. common quartz nd gniess pebbles
    Bt2—42 to 55 centimeters (16.5 to 21.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, moist; sandy loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04366. common fine quartz and gniess pebbles; continuous - phpvsfiid 1153383; continuous - phpvsfiid 1153383
    Bt3—55 to 64 centimeters (21.7 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds and clay films on rock fragments; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04367. about 30 percent quartz pebbles; few quartz cobbles; fragments in this stone line could be separate lithology, relic quartz sill or acient surface lag; patchy - phpvsfiid 1153384; patchy - phpvsfiid 1153385; patchy - phpvsfiid 1153384; patchy - phpvsfiid 1153385
    Btc—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04368. clay films near 1 mm thick in lower part; continuous - phpvsfiid 1153391; continuous - phpvsfiid 1153391
    Cr—81 to 108 centimeters (31.9 to 42.5 inches); coarse sand, bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 82P04369. reddish yellow weathered gniess that resembles sandstone; reddish staining and cementation strongest in upper 1 cm