IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arrada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998TX261002
  • User Pedon ID: 98TX261002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0027
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10887
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 26.8908329
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5402756
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Kenedy Foundation
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX261—Kenedy
  • MLRA: 150B—Gulf Coast Saline Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX613—Kenedy and Kleberg Counties, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31100-C3—Wall, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DNB, ALS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, calcareous, hyperthermic Typic Halaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arrada (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ARRADA
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, calcareous Typic Haplaquepts
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/1998
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: tidal flat
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 365
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/2/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38B
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Anz1

    Anz2

    Bnz1

    Bnz2

    BCnz

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    36

    122

    152

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Anz1

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    36

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Anz1

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    152

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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

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    Anz1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 92 percent gray (5Y 5/1), 92 percent white (5Y 8/1), dry; sandy clay loam; 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct and 3 percent brown (10YR 4/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P00177. alternating laminae of soil material and salt crystals; local lab E.C. was 193 dS/m
    Anz2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); 90 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), 90 percent white (5Y 8/1), dry; sandy clay loam; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 3n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P00178. alternating laminae of soil material and salt crystals; local lab E.C. was 181 dS/m
    Bnz1—36 to 122 centimeters (14.2 to 48.0 inches); gray (5Y 6/1), pale yellow (5Y 8/2), dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 3n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P00179. alternating laminae of soil material and salt crystals; few strata of clean sand grains; local lab E.C. was 175 dS/m
    Bnz2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); 80 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), 80 percent pale yellow (5Y 8/2), dry; fine sand; 3 percent greenish gray (5GY 5/1) fine and medium distinct mottles; massive; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 3n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P00180. few strata of salt and clean sand grains; local lab E.C. was 192 dS/m
    BCnz—152 to 210 centimeters (59.8 to 82.7 inches); 90 percent greenish gray (5GY 5/1), 90 percent pale yellow (5Y 8/2), dry; fine sand; 3 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) fine and medium faint mottles; massive; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 3n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P00181. few strata of salt and clean sand grains; local lab E.C. was 194 dS/m