IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alet
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX3111015
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX3111015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX3111015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N1319
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58626
  • 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: 28.5085564
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4338226
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX311—McMullen
  • MLRA: 83A—Northern Rio Grande Plain
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 28098-E4—Crowther, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clark Harshbarger, Gary Harris, Joe Neal, Jim Akin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alet
  • PSC - 7 to 57 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alet
  • Classificaton Date - 3/8/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: Inland dissected coastal plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/8/2011 (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

    CELTI

    PROSO

    Celtis

    Prosopis

    hackberry

    mesquite

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

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    7—155

    49—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

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt—7 to 49 centimeters (2.8 to 19.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent distinct organic stains on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btk1—49 to 68 centimeters (19.3 to 26.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 65 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    Btk2—68 to 103 centimeters (26.8 to 40.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btk3—103 to 155 centimeters (40.6 to 61.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bk—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent coarse distinct irregular iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-10-15 millimeter chert fragments; strong effervescence.