IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011TX279016
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX279016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2011TX279016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N1633
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 77109
  • Print Date: 1/28/2025

    • 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: 33.9652786
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3627243
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX279—Lamb
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Seth Sowder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustalfs
  • PSC - 14 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Blackwater Draw formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - SS-6

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/24/2011 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    KOSC

    PRGLT

    SPCR

    YUCCA

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Kochia scoparia

    Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Yucca

    blue grama

    Mexican-fireweed

    western honey mesquite

    sand dropseed

    yucca

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—14

    14—50

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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

    0.5

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    A2—2 to 14 centimeters (0.8 to 5.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—14 to 37 centimeters (5.5 to 14.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N03437. continuous - phpvsfiid 1131280; continuous - phpvsfiid 1131280
    Bt2—37 to 50 centimeters (14.6 to 19.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 11N03438. continuous - phpvsfiid 1131281; continuous - phpvsfiid 1131281