IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vernon-M
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S81-TX169-001
  • User Pedon ID: MLRA78-Vernon-TX169-001
  • User Site Association ID: S81-TX169-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0468
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49312
  • 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: 33.0849991
  • Std. Longitude: -101.2583313
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 13 km SE from intersection of US Hwy 84 and 380 in Post .96 km N and E on ranch road 110 meters N in rangeland.

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allen Wilding Lynn Williams Hallmark Drees Holland
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vernon-M
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine Typic Ustochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1981 (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
    • 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 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; hard, friable; 5.5 very fine roots; 2.5 tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02685. Few quartzite pebbles to 1 cm in diameter.; many very fine roots
    1B 1—16 to 30 centimeters (6.3 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dry; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02686. Few quartzite pebbles to 1 cm in diameter.; many fine roots
    1B 21—30 to 55 centimeters (11.8 to 21.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dry; clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02687. Small pressure faces on peds.
    1B 22ca—55 to 76 centimeters (21.7 to 29.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dry; clay; weak coarse blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02688. Small pressure faces on peds. Very fine to coarse calcium cabonate masses between peds. Fine and medium light olive gray 5Y 6/2 olive gray 5Y 5/2 moist bodies that change abruptly from the reddish brown clay.; few fine roots
    1B 3—76 to 105 centimeters (29.9 to 41.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02689. Pressure faces on peds. Common olive gray bodies to 9 cm in diameter that change abruptly from the reddish brown clay.
    1C r1—105 to 158 centimeters (41.3 to 62.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dry; shaly clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02690. Few grooved slickensides about 10 cm across and tilted about 35 degrees from horizontal. Thin calcium carbonate films between cleavage planes.
    1C r2—158 to 190 centimeters (62.2 to 74.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, dry; shaly clay; fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*; fragments. Lab sample # 81P02691. Few very fine soft masses of calcium carbonate between cleavage planes. Massive when moist.