IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cochina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX3111012
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX3111012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX3111012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N7195
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50881
  • 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: 28.2156143
  • Std. Longitude: -98.6617203
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX311—McMullen
  • MLRA: 83B—Western Rio Grande Plain
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 28098-B6—Loma Alta NW, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clark Harshbarger, Gary Harris, Richard Gelnar, Jim Akin, Joe Neal, David Hinojosa
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Sodic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cochina
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cochina
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for long periods begining in apr
  • Ponding: rare ponding for brief periods begining in apr
  • Geology: Fine Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/11/2011 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PAAC3

    Parkinsonia aculeata

    Jerusalem thorn

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

    ochric epipedon

    slickensides

    salt accumulations

    0—28

    28—204

    122—204

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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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    23

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay; moderate thick subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; clear broken boundary.
    Ap2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay; moderate thick subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 583383; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 583383
    Bss1—28 to 79 centimeters (11.0 to 31.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong very coarse wedge structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 80 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 583379; continuous - phpvsfiid 583379
    Bss2—79 to 122 centimeters (31.1 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay; strong coarse angular blocky, and very coarse wedge structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 80 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 583380; continuous - phpvsfiid 583380
    Bssz1—122 to 172 centimeters (48.0 to 67.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 80 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 583381; continuous - phpvsfiid 583381
    Bssz2—172 to 204 centimeters (67.7 to 80.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 70 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence. continuous - phpvsfiid 583382; continuous - phpvsfiid 583382