IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Newcastle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992TX503005
  • User Pedon ID: 92TX503005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992TX503005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0085
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65429
  • 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: 33.3480333
  • Std. Longitude: -98.9192722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 9.8 mi west on FR 210 from its intersection with TX 79, 1 mi south on FR 2898, 0.3 mi east and 20 ft north in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX503—Young
  • MLRA: 80B—Texas North-Central Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX503—Young County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33098-C8—Padgett, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lab Pedon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, superactive, thermic Typic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Newcastle
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cobb
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Typic Haplustalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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 residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: low sandstone ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone, unspecified at 84cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AMPHI8

    BOLAT

    GRSQ

    PRGLG

    Amphiachyris

    Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana

    Grindelia squarrosa

    Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa

    broomweed

    silver beardgrass

    curlycup gumweed

    honey mesquite

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    84 - 112

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    0—10

    10—84

    84—112

    84—112

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    —74—

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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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    360

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    225

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; many (5.0) very fine and fine roots and many (5.0) medium roots; many (5.0) very fine and common (2.0) fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00610
    Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; many (6.0) very fine and fine roots; few (0.5) medium and coarse and common (2.0) fine pores; faint clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00611. patchy - phpvsfiid 1175377; patchy - phpvsfiid 1175377
    Bt2—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable; common (2.0) fine roots; few (0.5) medium and coarse and common (2.0) fine pores; 30 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent fine distinct cylindrical strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00612. continuous - phpvsfiid 1175378; continuous - phpvsfiid 1175378
    Bt3—53 to 75 centimeters (20.9 to 29.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; hard, friable; common (2.0) fine roots; few (0.5) medium and coarse and common (2.0) fine pores; 30 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent fine distinct cylindrical strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00613. continuous - phpvsfiid 1175379; continuous - phpvsfiid 1175379
    Bt4—75 to 84 centimeters (29.5 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; common (2.0) very fine and fine roots and few (0.5) medium roots; common (2.0) very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00614. continuous - phpvsfiid 1175380; continuous - phpvsfiid 1175380
    Cr/Bt—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); bedrock; 60 percent clay films on rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # 93P00615
    Cr/Bt—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; common (3.0) very fine and fine roots throughout; common (3.0) fine and medium tubular pores; 60 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent fine and medium iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 93P00615. continuous - phpvsfiid 1156547; continuous - phpvsfiid 1156547