IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palobia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06TX273001
  • User Pedon ID: S06TX273001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S06TX273001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S06TX273001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45574
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 27.4782219
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9345016
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Kleberg County; from the guard shack at the King Ranch; 3.2 miles south and west on paved road to gate; 0.9 mile south on dirt road to bump gate; 0.3 mile west on dirt road; 50 feet south in range
  • Map Unit: PbB—Palobia loamy fine sand, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX273—Kleberg
  • MLRA: 83E—Sandsheet Prairie
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX613—Kenedy and Kleberg Counties, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JKW, NIH, SCH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, hyperthermic Typic Natrustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Palobia
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Delfina
  • Classificaton Date - 3/28/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy sediments
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Silt Sheet formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/28/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12A
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARIST

    BOISS

    CEPA8

    OPUNT

    PECIC

    PRGLG

    ZAFA

    Aristida

    Bothriochloa ischaemum var. songarica

    Celtis pallida

    Opuntia

    Pennisetum ciliare var. ciliare

    Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa

    Zanthoxylum fagara

    threeawn

    yellow bluestem

    spiny hackberry

    pricklypear

    buffelgrass

    honey mesquite

    lime pricklyash

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    natric

    noncoherent

    32 - 203

    - 171 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—32

    32—203

    56—203

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    —171—

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    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

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loamy fine sand; 12 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7081
    A2—18 to 32 centimeters (7.1 to 12.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; loamy fine sand; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7082
    Btn—32 to 56 centimeters (12.6 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 30 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 7 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on surfaces along pores and 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7083
    2Btkn1—56 to 106 centimeters (22.0 to 41.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium irregular carbonate masses and 2 percent medium irregular carbonate nodules; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7084
    2Btkn2—106 to 146 centimeters (41.7 to 57.5 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine and medium dendritic carbonate, finely disseminated and 15 percent medium irregular white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7085
    2Btkn3—146 to 183 centimeters (57.5 to 72.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 30 percent clay; coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) insect casts and 20 percent medium and coarse irregular white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7086
    2Btkn4—183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent insect casts and 5 percent coarse irregular white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # TAMU7087