IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Estacado
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993TX065001
  • User Pedon ID: 93TX065001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993TX065001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0658
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66001
  • 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: 35.4150009
  • Std. Longitude: -101.4938889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 5 miles west on FM 293 from its intersection with FM 15 at Panhandle. Then 3 miles north, 1 mile west, and 1 mile north on FM 1342, then 500 feet west and 500 feet north in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX065—Carson
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX065—Carson County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FBP, WEC, GSD, RAH, DAB
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Estacado
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Calciorthidic Paleustolls
  • PSC - 30 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1993
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: SSA 13
  • Plant Association Name: Hardland Slopes Range Site
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ASAS

    BOGR2

    BOGR2

    BOSA

    CITE2

    GUSA2

    GUSA2

    PASM

    RATIB

    VICIA

    Asclepias asperula

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bothriochloa saccharoides

    Cirsium texanum

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Ratibida

    Vicia

    spider milkweed

    blue grama

    blue grama

    silver bluestem

    Texas thistle

    broom snakeweed

    broom snakeweed

    western wheatgrass

    prairie coneflower

    vetch

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    placic horizon

    0—30

    30—218

    79—218

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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

    2

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    1068

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    559

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    14

    24

    1

    19

    33

    4

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    6785

    Panhandle

    WSFO
    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04600
    Ap2—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04601
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P04602. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193988; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193988
    Bt2—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent clay films; 3 percent fine and medium carbonate threads and 21 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 93P04603. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193989; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193989
    Btk1—79 to 137 centimeters (31.1 to 53.9 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3.0 roots; 10 percent clay films; 3 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 93P04604. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193990; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193990
    Btk2—137 to 203 centimeters (53.9 to 79.9 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3.0 roots; 10 percent clay films; 21 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 93P04605. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193991; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193991
    Btk3—203 to 234 centimeters (79.9 to 92.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 93P04606
    Btk4—234 to 305 centimeters (92.1 to 120.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 93P04607