IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rumple
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX209002
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX209002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX209002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7662
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55351
  • 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: 29.9393787
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0117340
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX209—Hays
  • MLRA: 81C—Edwards Plateau, Eastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX604—Comal and Hays Counties, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 29098-H1—Wimberley, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Travis Waiser, Alan Deubler, Ashley Newsome
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, thermic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rumple
  • Classificaton Date - 2/29/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rumple
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 104cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    Bt1

    Bt2

    0

    21

    48

    21

    48

    104

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    NSSL

    NSSL

    NSSL

    45.2

    82.9

    78.2

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    36.3

    10.4

    13.4

    19.9

    7.6

    9.7

    16.4

    2.8

    3.7

    18.5

    6.7

    8.4

    sieves

    sieves

    sieves

    3.2

    2.3

    1.2

    2.6

    1.1

    2.2

    3.1

    0.9

    1.8

    3.6

    1

    1.6

    6

    1.4

    1.6

    300 mesh sieve

    300 mesh sieve

    300 mesh sieve

    c

    c

    c

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    6.3

    6.8

    7.7
    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A

    Bt1

    Bt2

    0

    21

    48

    21

    48

    104

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    5.9

    6.5

    7.3

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    0.11

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

    Bt1

    Bt2

    0

    21

    48

    21

    48

    104

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    0.8

    0.3

    0.4

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

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    5

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACFA

    BOISS

    OPUNT

    SONU2

    Acacia farnesiana

    Bothriochloa ischaemum var. songarica

    Opuntia

    Sorghastrum nutans

    aroma

    yellow bluestem

    pricklypear

    Indiangrass

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    104 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—21

    21—104

    104—

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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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    556

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    A—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; gravelly clay; 38 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume 2-60-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—21 to 48 centimeters (8.3 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly clay; 55 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; distinct clay films; 25 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    Bt2—48 to 104 centimeters (18.9 to 40.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly clay; 62 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; prominent clay films; ; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    R—104 centimeters (40.9 inches); bedrock; indurated; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; dry when described;