IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Montell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX3111007
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX3111007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010TX3111007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1328
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43218
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 28.5158889
  • Std. Longitude: -98.7379722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX311—McMullen County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clark Harshbarger, Gary Harris, Jim Akin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Sodic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Montell
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2013
  • Classifier - Gary Harris
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, hyperthermic Sodic Haplusterts
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Fine Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/27/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALGR2

    CORA

    KOEBE

    LYCIU

    MATR3

    PRGLG

    Aloysia gratissima

    Coleogyne ramosissima

    Koeberlinia

    Lycium

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa

    whitebrush

    blackbrush

    allthorn

    desert-thorn

    algerita

    honey mesquite

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

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    salt accumulations

    gypsum accumulations

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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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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 2 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 5 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 3 percent distinct platy gypsum crystals, unspecified with sharp boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium distinct irregular salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06374
    Bw—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent by volume chert fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06375
    Bss—56 to 75 centimeters (22.0 to 29.5 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular salt masses in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume 3-5-20 millimeter chert fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06376
    Bnss—75 to 105 centimeters (29.5 to 41.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 10 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent threadlike salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 3 percent medium prominent platy gypsum crystals, unspecified with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume chert fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06377
    Bnssyz—105 to 130 centimeters (41.3 to 51.2 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06378
    Byz1—130 to 156 centimeters (51.2 to 61.4 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 5 percent fine iron-manganese masses in matrix; 10 percent fine faint platy gypsum crystals, unspecified with clear boundaries in matrix and 2 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate concretions with clear boundaries in matrix and 25 percent medium distinct spherical white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06379
    Byz2—156 to 185 centimeters (61.4 to 72.8 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent fine distinct spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent coarse distinct irregular white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, salt masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 3 percent medium faint platy pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), moist, gypsum crystals, unspecified with clear boundaries in matrix and 20 percent medium distinct irregular white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, salt masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06380
    BCyz—185 to 200 centimeters (72.8 to 78.7 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent medium distinct irregular masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent fine distinct platy pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) gypsum crystals, unspecified with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct irregular salt masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume quartzite fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06381