IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eckert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX209006
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX209006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX209006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7666
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55355
  • 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: 30.1123047
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1415863
  • 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: 30098-A2—Rough Hollow, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alan Deubler, Travis Waiser
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Haplustolls
  • 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 - Eckert
  • Classificaton Date - 2/29/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brackett
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 31cm
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 20.00 percent nonflat indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 2.00 percent nonflat indurated 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 2.00 percent nonflat indurated 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/8/2011 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • 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

    Bw

    0

    12

    12

    31

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    NSSL

    NSSL

    37.8

    28.7

    3.7

    6.7

    31.9

    39.7

    24.2

    35.7

    7.7

    4

    30.3

    31.6

    sieves

    sieves

    5.4

    10.7

    5.7

    6.7

    8.7

    7

    7.4

    4.5

    3.1

    2.7

    300 mesh sieve

    300 mesh sieve

    cl

    cl

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    8.1

    8.2
    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

    Bw

    0

    12

    12

    31

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    7.6

    7.7

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    0.02

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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

    Bw

    0

    12

    12

    31

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    0.7

    0.6

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

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    52

    69

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

    DITE3

    MATR3

    QUVI

    STSY

    Diospyros texana

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Quercus virginiana

    Stillingia sylvatica

    Texas persimmon

    algerita

    live oak

    queen's-delight

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    31 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—31

    31—

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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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    386

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    75

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; very gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—12 to 31 centimeters (4.7 to 12.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; very gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    R—31 centimeters (12.2 inches); bedrock; indurated; very high excavation difficulty; fragments.