IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dosrios
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX3111008
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX3111008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX3111008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N7191
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50877
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 28.6346397
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4706192
  • 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: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dosrios
  • 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 - Dosrios
  • 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: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: noncoherent strong weathered mudstone at 193cm 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 - partly cloudy
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALGR2

    ANDRO2

    CEPA8

    MATR3

    OPLE

    PROSO

    Aloysia gratissima

    Andropogon

    Celtis pallida

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Opuntia leptocaulis

    Prosopis

    whitebrush

    bluestem

    spiny hackberry

    algerita

    Christmas cactus

    mesquite

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

    bedrock, densic

    noncoherent

    193 - 203

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

    mollic epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    gypsic horizon

    salt accumulations

    densic materials

    densic contact

    0—95

    95—203

    95—203

    95—203

    151—193

    193—203

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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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    35

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; 46 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bss1—12 to 43 centimeters (4.7 to 16.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; 57 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bss2—43 to 65 centimeters (16.9 to 25.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; 58 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bss3—65 to 95 centimeters (25.6 to 37.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; 57 percent clay; moderate coarse wedge structure; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    2BCkyz1—95 to 151 centimeters (37.4 to 59.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent medium masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 10 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent medium threadlike salt masses in matrix and 15 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified between peds; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse irregular boundary.
    2BCkyz2—151 to 193 centimeters (59.4 to 76.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), moist; clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots between peds; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix and 3 percent coarse masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 3 percent gypsum masses and 15 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified and 12 percent medium threadlike salt masses; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded very weakly coherent cemented 2-15-35 millimeter mudstone fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse irregular boundary.
    2Cdkyz—193 to 203 centimeters (76.0 to 79.9 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist; silty clay; structureless massive; hard, extremely firm, noncoherent; 2 percent fine distinct irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct irregular masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 5 percent irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent medium reticulate gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix and 10 percent medium threadlike salt masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence.