IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roughcreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009TX319001
  • User Pedon ID: S09TX319001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009TX319001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T10TX319-typical pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0841
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24847
  • 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: 30.6899166
  • Std. Longitude: -99.3059464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Del Roy Reichenau - from the intersection of Highway 87 and FM 1871 in the town of Mason in Mason County, Texas; 6.6 miles south on FM 1871, and 2500 feet northwest in range
  • Map Unit: RkE—Roughcreek very cobbly clay, 1 to 12 percent slopes, very rocky
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX319—Mason
  • MLRA: 82A—Texas Central Basin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX319—Mason County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30099-F3—Turtle Creek, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAM,BL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, thermic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Roughcreek
  • PSC - 0 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eckrant
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: dissected plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 38cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Ipmf formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 35.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 76- to 250-millimeter limestone, cherty,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    0

    38

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A

    0

    38

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

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    38

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALGR2

    ARPU9

    CHLOR

    DITE3

    JUNIP

    OPLE

    OPUNT

    SOEL

    STIPA

    Aloysia gratissima

    Aristida purpurea

    Chloris

    Diospyros texana

    Juniperus

    Opuntia leptocaulis

    Opuntia

    Solanum elaeagnifolium

    Stipa

    whitebrush

    purple threeawn

    windmill grass

    Texas persimmon

    juniper

    Christmas cactus

    pricklypear

    silverleaf nightshade

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    38 -

    - 38 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—38

    38—

    —38—

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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

    2

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    A—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very cobbly clay; 10 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 51 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 3n; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 09N02923; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—38 to 63 centimeters (15.0 to 24.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.