IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dugout
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: loam
  • User Site ID: S09TX1430001
  • User Pedon ID: S09TX1430001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09TX1430001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0571
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37501
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 32.2099266
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0884476
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: Pd—Purves-Dugout-Maloterre complex, 1 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX143—Erath
  • MLRA: 85—Grand Prairie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX143—Erath County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32098-B1—Johnsville, Texas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ALS, JAG, JRJ, GWH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, thermic Lithic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dugout
  • PSC - 25 to 49 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2019
  • Classifier - Chance Robinson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dugout
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, thermic Lithic Calciustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 49 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/2009
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and siltstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 49cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Walnut Clay formation of the Fredericksburg group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R085AY176TX Adobe 30-38" PZ Jun 21 2019 Chance Robinson
  • Ecological State: 2 - Brushland
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    AMDR

    ANDRO2

    ARIST

    BOCU

    BOHI2

    CRTE4

    JUNIP

    RHUS

    YUCCA

    Amphiachyris dracunculoides

    Andropogon

    Aristida

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua hirsuta

    Croton texensis

    Juniperus

    Rhus

    Yucca

    prairie broomweed

    bluestem

    threeawn

    sideoats grama

    hairy grama

    Texas croton

    juniper

    sumac

    yucca

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    49 - 70

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

    ochric epipedon

    free carbonates

    calcic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithic contact

    0—12

    0—49

    12—49

    12—49

    49—49

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    1.5

    397

    190

    801

    243

    17.6

    27.3

    7.4

    418623

    STEPHENVILLE 9NNE

    COOP

    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—12 to 28 centimeters (4.7 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; soft, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout and 5 percent fine distinct threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—28 to 49 centimeters (11.0 to 19.3 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silt loam; weak coarse granular structure; slightly hard, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 15 percent coarse distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries throughout and 5 percent coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout and 5 percent fine distinct spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R1—49 to 70 centimeters (19.3 to 27.6 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; bedrock; structureless massive; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; fragments, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R2—70 to 70 centimeters (27.6 to 27.6 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; bedrock; structureless massive; fragments, by hcl, 1n.; dry when described; observed in pit, small