IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pavelek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986TX255001
  • User Pedon ID: 86TX255001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0262
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59558
  • 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: 28.8766670
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9838867
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the intersection of US Hwy 181 and Farm Rd 1144 in Karnes City 4.7 mi W on Farm Rd 1144 50 feet N rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX255—Karnes
  • MLRA: 83A—Northern Rio Grande Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. M. Galbraith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, hyperthermic, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pavelek
  • PSC - 0 to 35 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pavelek
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, hyperthermic, shallow Pe
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—35

    18—35

    18—200

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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

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    —

    131

    —

    315

    73

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    1Ak—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 5.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent medium spherical lime masses; fragments; 51 percent percent of pedon occupied by this horizon (lateral area percent); slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described;. Calcareous; moderately alkaline.; few medium soft masses of lime concentrations; many very fine roots between peds; few fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous
    1B/Ck—18 to 35 centimeters (7.1 to 13.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; channery clay; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 5.5 very fine roots around fragments and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct carbonate coats on faces of peds; 11 percent coarse platy lime masses and 11 percent medium platy carbonate concretions; fragments; 49 percent percent of pedon occupied by this horizon (lateral area percent); strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01311; dry when described;. Calcarous; moderatley alkaline. About 6% volume weakly cemented caliche fragments 20-75 mm. Weakly cemented secondary CaCO3 is about 20% by volume.; common medium lime concretions concentrations; common coarse soft masses of lime concentrations; few lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots matted around stones; few fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221568; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221568
    2Crkm—35 to 200 centimeters (13.8 to 78.7 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; unweathered bedrock; weakly cemented; 55 percent prominent carbonate coats on upper surfaces of peds or rocks; 11 percent coarse platy carbonate concretions and 11 percent very coarse platy carbonate concretions; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 87P01312; dry when described;. Caliche layers are violently effervescent continuous; siltstone is noncalcareous; moderately alkaline. Weakly to strongly cemented. Secondary CaCO3 is about 10% by volume. This horizon is thinly bedded interstratified siltstone and caliche l; common coarse lime concretions concentrations; common very coarse lime concretions concentrations; many lime or carbonate coats surface features on upper surfaces of peds or stones; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 221569; continuous - phpvsfiid 221569