IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Benito
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984TX061002
  • User Pedon ID: 84TX061002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0320
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56036
  • Print Date: 9/26/2024

    • 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: 26.0552769
  • Std. Longitude: -97.6402740
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cameron County, TX; 7 mi SW of San Benito, TX on FR 2520, then 3.1 mi E on US 281,then 1.75 mi N on field road.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX061—Cameron

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. L. Jacobs and C. L. Girdner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Udorthentic Pellusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Benito
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Benito
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, montmorillonitic, hyperthermic Udorthen
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; clay; weak medium platy, and moderate fine granular structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P01535. Few snail shell fragments; saline; calcareous; few fine roots
    1Anz1—20 to 47 centimeters (7.9 to 18.5 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01536. Common snail shell fragments; few threads of salts, saline; calcareous; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few intersecting slickensides surface features; many fine roots
    1Anz2—47 to 74 centimeters (18.5 to 29.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P01537. Few snail shell fragments; few threads and nests of salts; saline; calcareous.; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; common intersecting slickensides surface features; few very fine roots
    1Bknz1—74 to 120 centimeters (29.1 to 47.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01538. Few threads and nests of salts; saline; calcareous.; few soft masses of carbonate concentrations; many intersecting slickensides surface features; few very fine roots
    1Bknz2—120 to 163 centimeters (47.2 to 64.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; clay; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01539. Few threads and nests of salts; saline; calcareous.; few soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common intersecting slickensides surface features; few very fine roots; common fine 10YR44 mottles
    1Bknz3—163 to 196 centimeters (64.2 to 77.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay; 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent faint nonintersecting slickensides; 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P01540. Few snail shell fragments; saline; calcareous.; few soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few nonintersecting slickensides surface features; many fine 10YR41 mottles