IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dallam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995TX111002
  • User Pedon ID: 95TX111002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0495
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67513
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 36.0829444
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5398889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX111—Dallam
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX111—Dallam County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kimble, Follett
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dallam
  • PSC - 39 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/5/1995
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: playa
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/5/1995 (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: wind erosion
    • 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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    1220

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    0

    430

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03728
    A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03729
    A3—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03730
    A1b—18 to 39 centimeters (7.1 to 15.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, dry; very fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3 percent faint clay films between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03731. patchy - phpvsfiid 182105; patchy - phpvsfiid 182105
    Bt1—39 to 61 centimeters (15.4 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, dry; very fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03732. patchy - phpvsfiid 182106; patchy - phpvsfiid 182106
    Bt2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films between sand grains; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03733. patchy - phpvsfiid 182107; patchy - phpvsfiid 182107
    Btk1—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 30 percent fine and medium threadlike extremely weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate threads between peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03734. patchy - phpvsfiid 182108; patchy - phpvsfiid 182108
    Btk2—107 to 141 centimeters (42.1 to 55.5 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3) crushed, pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine high-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 40 percent medium and coarse cylindrical moderately coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate concretions throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P03735
    Btk3—141 to 200 centimeters (55.5 to 78.7 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, pinkish white (5YR 8/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine high-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 20 percent medium and coarse cylindrical moderately coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/3) carbonate concretions throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P03736. patchy - phpvsfiid 182109; patchy - phpvsfiid 182109