IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kavett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX3999005
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX3999005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX3999005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8868
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47539
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 31.7657146
  • Std. Longitude: -100.0653152
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX399—Runnels
  • MLRA: 78B—Central Rolling Red Plains, Western Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX399—Runnels County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31100-G1—Herring Ranch, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A Bragg, C. Patton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Petrocalcic 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, thermic Lithic Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 15 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: dissected plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 20cm with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter petrocalcic fragments,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other shrub cover
  • 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

    ACGR

    ARIST

    CROTO

    GUSA2

    OPUNT

    PRGL2

    TRMU

    Acacia greggii

    Aristida

    Croton

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Opuntia

    Prosopis glandulosa

    Tridens muticus

    catclaw acacia

    threeawn

    croton

    broom snakeweed

    pricklypear

    honey mesquite

    slim tridens

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

    petrocalcic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    very strongly coherent

    15 - 20

    20 - 45

    - 5 -

    - 5 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    petrocalcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—20

    20—45

    —15—

    —5—

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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

    3

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very channery sandy clay loam; 45 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots between peds and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-45-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-250 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bkkm—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches);, light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; cemented material; carbonates present; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    R—20 centimeters (7.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.