IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mirasol
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983C-TX131-815
  • User Pedon ID: 99TX131005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0528
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12033
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 27.9230003
  • Std. Longitude: -98.6741638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 815—Mirasol very gravelly sandy loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX131—Duval
  • MLRA: 83C—Central Rio Grande Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX131—Duval County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 27098-H6—Freer NW, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Holland, Paul
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mirasol
  • PSC - 5 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/2008
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mirasol
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic A
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/1999
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent moderate weathered sandstone, unspecified at 43cm with 45 to <100
  • Geology: Oakville Sandstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/8/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8B
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    3

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine gravelly fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-200 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P03323; observed in pit, small
    Bt—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; cobbly sandy clay loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; faint clay films on rock fragments and faint clay films on surfaces along pores and faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-200 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P03324; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239527; patchy - phpvsfiid 239526; patchy - phpvsfiid 239528; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239527; patchy - phpvsfiid 239526; patchy - phpvsfiid 239528
    Bk—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; 1.0 medium roots around fragments and 1.0 fine roots around fragments and 1.0 coarse roots around fragments; 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; prominent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 251-?-400 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P03325; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 239529; continuous - phpvsfiid 239529
    R—43 to 80 centimeters (16.9 to 31.5 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3); structureless massive; indurated; prominent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats on rock fragments; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 00P03326; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 239530; continuous - phpvsfiid 239530