IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharvana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985TX329002
  • User Pedon ID: 85TX329002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0969
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57235
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 31.8872223
  • Std. Longitude: -101.9194412
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 8 km S of IH20 in Midland, TS on TX 349, 4.8 km E on RR 213, 4.8 km S on County Rd. 6.4 km E on County Rd.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX329—Midland
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Blackstock, Feuerbacher, Grossman, Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Ustollic Paleargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharvana
  • PSC - 25 to 52 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharvana
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Ustalfi
  • 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
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: 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

    25—52

    52—72

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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

    —

    —

    818

    —

    35

    —

    —

    18

    28

    8

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    1A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 11 percent fine and medium spherical worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P05213. common fine and medium worm casts concentrations; many fine and medium roots throughout
    1A2—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine and medium spherical worm casts; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05214. few fine and medium worm casts concentrations; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—25 to 45 centimeters (9.8 to 17.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05215. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219566; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219566
    1Bt2—45 to 52 centimeters (17.7 to 20.5 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior and white (10YR 8/1) exterior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and white (10YR 8/1) exterior, dry; extremely gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots top of horizon and 2.5 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 5.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds; 80 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P05216. Highly fractured indurated caliche (rubble); fragments are 2-8 cm in diameter with approximately 20% Bt material. (calcareous) between fragments.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots matted around stones; common very fine and fine roots in mat at top of horizon; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219567; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 219567
    1Bkm—52 to 72 centimeters (20.5 to 28.3 inches); white (10YR 8/1) exterior, white (10YR 8/1) exterior, dry; indurated material; iron present; fragments. Lab sample # 85P05217. Indurated caliche; very little fracturing.