IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Talpa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX3999001
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX3999001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX3999001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8864
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47535
  • 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: 31.6130676
  • Std. Longitude: -99.7666702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX399—Runnels
  • MLRA: 78A—Rolling Limestone Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31099-E7—Concho, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 78 Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, thermic Typic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Talpa
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, thermic Typic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 72cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    BOSA

    BUDA

    CEOC

    JUNIP

    OPUNT

    PRGL2

    Aristida

    Bothriochloa saccharoides

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Celtis occidentalis

    Juniperus

    Opuntia

    Prosopis glandulosa

    threeawn

    silver bluestem

    buffalograss

    common hackberry

    juniper

    pricklypear

    honey mesquite

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    72 - 97

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—19

    19—72

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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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    A1—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); 10YR (10YR/),, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 37 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    A2—19 to 43 centimeters (7.5 to 16.9 inches); 10YR (10YR/),, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat angular indurated ? to 480-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated ? to 105-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw—43 to 72 centimeters (16.9 to 28.3 inches); 2.5YR (2.5YR/),, olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated ? to 105-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    R—72 to 97 centimeters (28.3 to 38.2 inches); fragments.