IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011TX279018
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX279018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX279018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N1635
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 77106
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 33.9647484
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3638916
  • 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 - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2011
  • 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 - Crop/CRP

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/4/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    GOSSY

    Gossypium

    cotton

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—19

    19—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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    Ap—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 subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N03443
    A/Btp—2 to 19 centimeters (0.8 to 7.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. patchy - phpvsfiid 1131285; patchy - phpvsfiid 1131285
    Bt1—19 to 34 centimeters (7.5 to 13.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N03445. continuous - phpvsfiid 1131286; continuous - phpvsfiid 1131286
    Bt2—34 to 50 centimeters (13.4 to 19.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 36 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 11N03446. continuous - phpvsfiid 1131287; continuous - phpvsfiid 1131287