IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): AGUILARES
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999TX131007
  • User Pedon ID: 99TX131007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0524
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12029
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 27.8052216
  • Std. Longitude: -98.7261963
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 899—Lomart loam, 1 to 5 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-G6—Sarnosa Hill, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: PAUL D. HOLLAND
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - AGUILARES
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, superactive, calcareous, hyperthermic Haplocalcidic Ustochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/1999
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Jackson formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/6/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 7B
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 25
    • 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

    3.5

    4000

    1000

    154

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    200

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    335

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 2.0 medium dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P03293; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; 63 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P03294; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy clay loam; 58 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P03295; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy clay loam; 56 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent coarse prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate nodules in matrix and 7 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 5-?-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P03296; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sandy clay loam; 47 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent coarse prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate nodules in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 5-?-30 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P03297; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sandy clay loam; 56 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent coarse prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate nodules in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 5-?-30 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P03298; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk4—150 to 193 centimeters (59.1 to 76.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 46 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; soft, friable; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent coarse prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate nodules in matrix and 6 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume flat angular moderately coherent cemented 15-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P03299; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—193 to 200 centimeters (76.0 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; 42 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 14 percent clay; hard, very firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; prominent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 00P03300; very dry when described; observed in pit, small