IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aspermont
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998TX433001
  • User Pedon ID: 98TX433001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0557
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10827
  • 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: 33.1065292
  • Std. Longitude: -100.2238617
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the junction of US Highway 83 and Farm Road 2211 in Aspermont, TX, 1.9 mi. south on US 83, 300 feet west in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX433—Stonewall
  • MLRA: 78B—Central Rolling Red Plains, Western Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX433—Stonewall County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33100-A2—Aspermont Lake, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Cail, Conrad Neitsch, Richard Gelnar
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Typic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aspermont (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2014
  • Classifier - John Patton
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - aspermont
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, nonacid, thermic Calcic Ustochrepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1998
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • 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 colluvium and/or residuum over claystone
  • Landscape: dissected plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 34
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, densic

    noncoherent

    147 - 203

    - 56 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    densic materials

    0—14

    14—53

    53—107

    147—203

    —14—

    —39—

    —54—

    —56—
    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

    —

    —

    440

    —

    270

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 4.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03268
    Bw—14 to 38 centimeters (5.5 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 4.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03269
    Bk1—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; 1 percent carbonate threads and 8 percent fine carbonate concretions and 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03270
    Bk2—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots and 0.3 coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; 5 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions and 22 percent medium and coarse carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03271
    Bk3—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 2.0 fine roots and 0.3 coarse roots; 2.0 very fine and fine pores; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions and 10 percent medium and coarse carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03272
    BCk—107 to 147 centimeters (42.1 to 57.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots and 0.3 coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; 1 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium and coarse carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter shale, clayey fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P03273
    2Cd1—147 to 168 centimeters (57.9 to 66.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silty clay, bedrock; massive; extremely hard, very firm; 0.3 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-15-75 millimeter shale, clayey fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P03274
    2Cd2—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); 90 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and 5 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) and 5 percent greenish gray (5G 5/1) silty clay, bedrock; massive; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P03275