IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985TX003002
  • User Pedon ID: 85TX003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0965
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57231
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 32.4300003
  • Std. Longitude: -103.0244446
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 47 km W of Andres TX. on TX176, Site is 150 meters N in pasture.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX003—Andrews
  • MLRA: 77D—Southern High Plains, Southwestern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Blackstock, Feuerbacher, Grossman, Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, thermic, shallow Ustollic Paleorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Conger
  • PSC - 25 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conger
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), thermic, shallow Ustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic horizon

    calcic horizon

    50—78

    78—230

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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

    0

    —

    —

    1062

    —

    315

    35

    —

    —

    17

    27

    9

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    1A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 1 percent medium and coarse irregular carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05188. Calcareous matrix.; few medium and coarse carbonate concretions concentrations; many fine and medium roots between peds; effervescence is continuous
    1Bw1—15 to 35 centimeters (5.9 to 13.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 2.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 11 percent very coarse irregular carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05189. Calcareous matrix.; common very coarse carbonate concretions concentrations; many fine and medium roots between peds; effervescence is continuous
    1Bw2—35 to 50 centimeters (13.8 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 2.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 30 percent extremely coarse irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05190. Calcareous matrix.; many extremely coarse soft masses of carbonate concentrations; many fine and medium roots between peds; effervescence is continuous
    1Bkm—50 to 78 centimeters (19.7 to 30.7 inches); white (10YR 8/1) interior, white (10YR 8/1) interior, dry; indurated material; carbonates present; 5.5 fine roots around fragments; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05191. Fractured indurated caliche in plates less than or equal to 10 mm thick; Bw2 soil material betwen plates (10%) calcareous.; many fine roots matted around stones; effervescence is continuous
    1Ck1—78 to 120 centimeters (30.7 to 47.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, pink (7.5YR 8/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; soft, very friable, weakly cemented by carbonates, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments; 30 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05192. Several layers of weakly cemented CaCO3; approximately 50% CaCO3 concretions; sampled with bucket auger.; many fine and medium carbonate concretions concentrations; few very fine roots matted around stones; effervescence is continuous
    1Ck2—120 to 150 centimeters (47.2 to 59.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior, pink (5YR 7/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent medium spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05193. 50% CaCO3 as concretions and soft masses; sampled with a bucket auger.; many medium carbonate concretions concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    1Ck3—150 to 205 centimeters (59.1 to 80.7 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) interior, pink (7.5YR 8/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 30 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05194. Same as above.; many fine and medium carbonate concretions concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    1Ck4—205 to 230 centimeters (80.7 to 90.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 30 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 85P05195. Same as above.; many fine and medium carbonate concretions concentrations; effervescence is continuous