IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Obaro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S80-TX263-002
  • User Pedon ID: MLRA78-Obaro-TX263-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0281
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48059
  • 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: 33.1791649
  • Std. Longitude: -100.7069473
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Kent County; Texas. 4 km E of Claremont on US Hwy 380 3 km N on ranch rd 15 meters E in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX263—Kent

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stahnke Allenl Wilding Yeck Finney Cyprian Lowther
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Obaro
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Haplustalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water 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
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    1A 1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 11 percent worm casts and 1 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01517. Few termite tunnels. About 3 pct calcium carbonate concretions from 1 to 10 mm in diameter. Few siliceous pebbles 1 to 10 mm in diameter. Calcareous; common worm casts concentrations; few lime concretions concentrations; many roots
    1B 21ca—12 to 36 centimeters (4.7 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 11 percent worm casts and 1 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01518. Common tremite tunnels. About 5 pct calcium carbonate concretions from 1 to 10 mm in diametr. Calcareous; common worm casts concentrations; few lime concretions concentrations; many roots
    1B 22ca—36 to 57 centimeters (14.2 to 22.4 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 2.5 roots; 2.5 tubular pores; 37 percent carbonate coats on faces of peds; 11 percent worm casts and 11 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01519. Few termite tunnels. About 10 pct calcium carbonate concretions up to 3 cm in diameter. Calcareous; common worm casts concentrations; common lime concretions concentrations; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; common roots
    1B 31ca—57 to 82 centimeters (22.4 to 32.3 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 37 percent carbonate coats on faces of peds; 11 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01520. Few termite tunnels. Concretions of calcium carbonate up to 2 cm in diameter. Calcareous; common lime concretions concentrations; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; few roots
    1B 32ca—82 to 102 centimeters (32.3 to 40.2 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 0.5 roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 37 percent carbonate coats on faces of peds; 11 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01521. About 15 pct light gray mottles as lenticular irregular shapes. Few termite tunnels. Calcareous; common lime concretions concentrations; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; few roots
    1C r1ca—102 to 134 centimeters (40.2 to 52.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01522. 20 pct 5Y 7/1 mottles that occur as discontinous bands 1 to 2 cm thick. Rock structre with fine to medium texturally stratified thin plates that have few vertical fissures.; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    1C r2ca—134 to 154 centimeters (52.8 to 60.6 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01523. Rock structure with distorted bedding plnes having lens from silt loam through silty clay texture. 15 pct discontinous lentircular 0.2 to 3 cm wide and 10 cm long light gray mottles. Few termite tunnels. Calcareous; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    1C r3ca—154 to 165 centimeters (60.6 to 65.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 80P01524. Few termite tunnels. 10 pct 5Y 7/2 material that tends to be interrupted horizontal bedding planes. Threads and films of alcium carbonate between dbedding planes. Matryx noncalcareous; few roots
    1C r4ca—165 to 190 centimeters (65.0 to 74.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine platy structure; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent carbonate coats in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 80P01525. About 5 pct 5Y 7/2 spheriodial mottles from 1 to 2 cm diameter. Few termite tunnels. Few films of calcium carbonate along bedding planes.; few lime concretions concentrations; few lime or carbonate coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine roots