IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mereta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX3999007
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX3999007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX3999007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8870
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47541
  • 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: 31.7689171
  • Std. Longitude: -100.0761642
  • 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, 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 - Mereta
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Paleustolls
  • PSC - 14 to 27 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

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: dissected plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter mixed,
  • 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

    ARIST

    CROTO

    EPHED

    GUSA2

    MATR3

    MIAC3

    OPLE

    OPUNT

    PRGL2

    Aristida

    Croton

    Ephedra

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Mimosa aculeaticarpa

    Opuntia leptocaulis

    Opuntia

    Prosopis glandulosa

    threeawn

    croton

    jointfir

    broom snakeweed

    algerita

    catclaw mimosa

    Christmas cactus

    pricklypear

    honey mesquite

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

    petrocalcic

    very strongly coherent

    27 - 52

    - 26 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—27

    14—27

    27—52

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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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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 3n; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt—14 to 27 centimeters (5.5 to 10.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly clay loam; 29 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-150-250 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bkkm—27 to 52 centimeters (10.6 to 20.5 inches); cemented material; fragments.