IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stovall
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991TX043006
  • User Pedon ID: 91TX043006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0462
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 30.3391666
  • Std. Longitude: -103.0175018
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: from the junction of US 90 and US 385 in Marathon; 14.45 miles N on US 385; .85 miles E and S to hdqtrs of Randolf-Keller ranch; 1.9 miles E on ranch road to gate; .5 miles S on ranch road; 30 feet E of road in range
  • Map Unit: SOA—Stovall silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX043—Brewster
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX622—Brewster County, Texas (Main Part)
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30103-C1—Wolf Camp Hills, Texas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rex Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, carbonatic, hyperthermic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Stovall
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hodgins
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Ustollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1991
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1991 (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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—20

    20—64

    64—203

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    1280

    0

    36

    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02642. few small pebbles, less 1%, less 1/4 inch; few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02643. few, less 1% small less 1/4 inch pebbles; few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bw1—20 to 64 centimeters (7.9 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02644. few, less 1% small, less 1/4 inch pebbles; common very fine and fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bw2—64 to 124 centimeters (25.2 to 48.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular carbonate masses and 1 percent medium spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02645. few, less 2% small less 1/4 inch pebbles; common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few medium carbonate concretions concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bk1—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular carbonate masses and 11 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02646. few, less 2% small less 1/4 inch pebbles; common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine and medium carbonate concretions concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    Bk2—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular carbonate masses and 11 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P02647. few, less 2% small less 1/4 inch pebbles; common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine and medium carbonate concretions concentrations; effervescence is continuous