IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sanderson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985TX443002
  • User Pedon ID: 85TX443002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0644
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56910
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 30.1788889
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5255556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Terrell County, Texas; approx. 8.4 mi West of Sanderson, TX on US Highway 90, 2.1 mi North on private ranch road.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX443—Terrell
  • MLRA: 81A—Edwards Plateau, Western Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX443—Terrell County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30102-B5—Ninemile Ranch, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, thermic Ustic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sanderson
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/5/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sanderson
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic Ustollic Camborthids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy and gravelly alluvium and/or colluvium derived from limestone
  • Landscape: dissected plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—33

    33—188

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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

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    964.3

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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; common (2.5) fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; 2 percent by volume 2-?-13 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03326
    A2—12 to 33 centimeters (4.7 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; very gravelly clay loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent worm casts; 2 percent by volume 2-?-13 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03327
    Bk1—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 11 percent worm casts and 1 percent threadlike carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume 2-?-13 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 48 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03328
    Bk2—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; very gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts and 1 percent threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-?-13 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03329
    Bk3—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; very gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts and 1 percent threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume 2-?-13 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03330
    Bk4—132 to 188 centimeters (52.0 to 74.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; very gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts and 1 percent threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume 2-?-13 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03331
    2C—188 to 264 centimeters (74.0 to 103.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent threadlike carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume 2-?-13 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 85P03332