IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Esseville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX3111007
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX3111007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX3111007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N7190
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50876
  • 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: 28.6401062
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4622421
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX311—McMullen
  • MLRA: 83A—Northern Rio Grande Plain
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 28098-F4—Caballos Creek, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clark Harshbarger, Gary Harris, Richard Gelnar, Jim Akin, Joe Neal, David Hinojosa
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Aridic Gypsiusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Esseville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Esseville
  • Taxonomic Class - Vertisols
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium over strongly weathered, clayey residuum weathered from mudstone
  • Landscape: inland dissected coastal plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: noncoherent strong weathered mudstone at 122cm with <10
  • Geology: Jackson Group formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/8/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    ANDRO2

    CEPA8

    COHO

    OPLE

    OPUNT

    PROSO

    Andropogon

    Celtis pallida

    Condalia hookeri

    Opuntia leptocaulis

    Opuntia

    Prosopis

    bluestem

    spiny hackberry

    Brazilian bluewood

    Christmas cactus

    pricklypear

    mesquite

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    salt accumulations

    densic materials

    densic contact

    0—58

    9—58

    46—73

    58—151

    58—160

    122—153

    151—160

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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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    35

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    Ap—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; 47 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt—9 to 46 centimeters (3.5 to 18.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; 55 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Btss—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; 55 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 40 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary.
    BCkyz—58 to 73 centimeters (22.8 to 28.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), 75 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 25 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; clay; 54 percent clay; moderate medium wedge structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; slickensides (geogenic); 5 percent fine distinct irregular masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct irregular masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 10 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    2CBkyz—73 to 122 centimeters (28.7 to 48.0 inches); 70 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 5 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; clay loam; 39 percent clay; weak very coarse angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.1 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent medium distinct irregular masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix and 3 percent medium salt masses in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded noncoherent cemented 2-15-30 millimeter mudstone fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    2Cdyz1—122 to 151 centimeters (48.0 to 59.4 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist; loam; massive; noncoherent; 0.1 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent very coarse distinct masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent fine salt masses in matrix and 7 percent medium irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Cdyz2—151 to 160 centimeters (59.4 to 63.0 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist; loam, bedrock; massive; noncoherent; 0.1 very fine roots; 7 percent ; fragments; violent effervescence.