IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kavett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX3999006
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX3999006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX3999006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8869
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47540
  • 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: 31.7635632
  • Std. Longitude: -100.0636215
  • 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-skeletal, mixed, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Paleustolls
  • 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-skeletal, mixed, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Paleustolls
  • PSC - 14 to 29 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter petrocalcic fragments, 35.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter petrocalcic fragments,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2010 (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

    OPUNT

    PRGL2

    TRMU

    Acacia greggii

    Opuntia

    Prosopis glandulosa

    Tridens muticus

    catclaw acacia

    pricklypear

    honey mesquite

    slim tridens

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

    petrocalcic

    very strongly coherent

    29 - 54

    - 25 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—29

    14—29

    29—54

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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 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 40 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 99 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate concretions with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary.
    Bk—14 to 29 centimeters (5.5 to 11.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; very cobbly sandy clay loam; 40 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate concretions with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-45-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-125-250 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bkkm—29 to 54 centimeters (11.4 to 21.3 inches); cemented material; carbonates present; fragments.