IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kavett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX3999003
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX3999003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX3999003
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8866
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47537
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 31.6161118
  • Std. Longitude: -99.7841415
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX399—Runnels
  • MLRA: 78A—Rolling Limestone Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31099-E7—Concho, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Bragg, C. Patton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Petrocalcic calciu Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kavett
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, active, thermic Lithic Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 21 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium derived from limestone over loamy residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 27cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter petrocalcic fragments, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75- to 250-millimeter petrocalcic fragments,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/2010 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARIST

    BOCU

    BUDA

    CELTI

    CROTO

    JUCO11

    MATR3

    OPUNT

    Aristida

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Celtis

    Croton

    Juniperus coahuilensis

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Opuntia

    threeawn

    sideoats grama

    buffalograss

    hackberry

    croton

    redberry juniper

    algerita

    pricklypear

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

    petrocalcic

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    indurated

    21 - 25

    25 - 50

    - 4 -

    - 25 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    petrocalcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—21

    21—25

    25—50

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    —4—

    —25—
    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

    5

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    491

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    180

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    A—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), 10YR 2.5/2 (10YR 2.5/2), moist; loam; 37 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots between peds and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular and 2.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-8-75 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bkm—21 to 25 centimeters (8.3 to 9.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist; cemented material; carbonates present; high excavation difficulty; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small