IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Splotter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991TX301036
  • User Pedon ID: 91TX301036
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0707
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024
  • 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: 31.9119453
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6811142
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the jct of TX-302 and CR-1933 in Mentone; 15.6 mi N on CR-1933; 0.15 mi E on caliche road; 60 feet N in range
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX301—Loving
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry L. Rives, Sharon J. Elias, Alan C. Terrell,
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Typic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 36
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Splotter
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Simona
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic, shallow Typic Pale
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1991 (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

    petrocalcic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—10

    10—28

    28—91

    91—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

    2

    928

    90

    25

    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04036. 10% caliche pebbles; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bk—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04037. fragments are fractured petrocalcic with laminar cap 2 mm thick on upper side and pendents on lower side; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bkm1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches);, white (10YR 8/1), dry; massive; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04038. indurated calcium carbonate with laminar cap 1 to 6 mm thick
    Bkm2—43 to 91 centimeters (16.9 to 35.8 inches);, white (10YR 8/1), dry; massive; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04039. moderately to strongly cemented calcium carbonate with 5 to 6 inch laminar plates that have laminar caps on upper side 1 mm thick
    BCk—91 to 203 centimeters (35.8 to 79.9 inches);, white (10YR 8/1), dry; massive; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 91P04040. soft calcium carbonate soil material with a loam texture; 15 percent strongly cemented caliche fragments, 25 percent moderately cemented caliche fragments; most caliche fragments have a laminar cap 1 to 2 mm thick