IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brundage
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX3111009
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX3111009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX3111009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N7192
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50878
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 28.5602226
  • Std. Longitude: -98.6830063
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX311—McMullen
  • MLRA: 83B—Western Rio Grande Plain
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 28098-E6—Pertle Creek, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clark Harshbarger, Gary Harris, Richard Gelnar, Jim Akin, Joe Neal, David Hinojosa
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Aridic Natrustalfs
  • 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 - Brundage
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brundage
  • Classificaton Date - 2/9/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Quaternary Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/9/2011 (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 - overcast
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AMPHI8

    JADI

    OPLE

    OPUNT

    PROSO

    Amphiachyris

    Jatropha dioica

    Opuntia leptocaulis

    Opuntia

    Prosopis

    broomweed

    leatherstem

    Christmas cactus

    pricklypear

    mesquite

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

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    secondary carbonates

    salt accumulations

    0—3

    3—64

    33—190

    82—190

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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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    36

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    215

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; moderately hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; abrupt broken boundary.
    Btn1—3 to 19 centimeters (1.2 to 7.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium columnar structure; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Btn2—19 to 33 centimeters (7.5 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Btkn—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent fine threadlike salt masses and 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Btky—64 to 82 centimeters (25.2 to 32.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries; 15 percent fine salt masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bkyz—82 to 140 centimeters (32.3 to 55.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak very coarse angular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent medium iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 7 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix and 3 percent fine threadlike gypsum masses in matrix and 5 percent medium threadlike salt masses in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-40-65 millimeter chert fragments; diffuse irregular boundary.
    BCkyz—140 to 190 centimeters (55.1 to 74.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak very coarse angular blocky structure; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium spherical iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 2 percent fine salt masses and 2 percent fine gypsum masses and 5 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments.