IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wickett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985TX003003
  • User Pedon ID: 85TX003003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0966
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57232
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 32.2200012
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4888916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 16 km S of Andrews, TX. on US 385, 3.2 km E on Ranch Rd, 0.4 km N on Oil Field Rd.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX003—Andrews
  • MLRA: 77D—Southern High Plains, Southwestern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Blackstock, Feuerbacher, Grossman, Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Petrocalcic Ustollic Paleargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wickett
  • PSC - 33 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wickett
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Petrocalcic Ustalfic
  • 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 Shape Down: undulating
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    33—70

    70—100

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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

    1

    —

    —

    951

    —

    270

    35

    —

    —

    17

    27

    9

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    1A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1 percent coarse cylindrical worm casts; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05196. Noncalcareous; few coarse worm casts concentrations; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1A2—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1 percent coarse cylindrical worm casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05197. Noncalcareous; few coarse worm casts concentrations; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—33 to 45 centimeters (13.0 to 17.7 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent coarse cylindrical worm casts; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05198. Noncalcareous; few coarse worm casts concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 219558; patchy - phpvsfiid 219558
    1Bt2—45 to 70 centimeters (17.7 to 27.6 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable by carbonates, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots between peds and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine and medium continuous tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent coarse cylindrical worm casts; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05199. Noncalcareous; few coarse worm casts concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots between peds; few coarse roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 219559; patchy - phpvsfiid 219559
    1Bkm—70 to 100 centimeters (27.6 to 39.4 inches); white (10YR 8/1) interior, white (10YR 8/1) interior, dry; indurated material; iron present; fragments. Lab sample # 85P05200. Indurated caliche in plates 5 cm thick; few vertical fractures; 5% Bt2 soil material between plates and in cracks (calcareous).