IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roughcreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX319020
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX319020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX319020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8434
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55279
  • 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: 30.6421185
  • Std. Longitude: -99.4267654
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX319—Mason
  • MLRA: 82A—Texas Central Basin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX319—Mason County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 30099-F4—Sheep Run Creek, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Travis Waiser and Alan Terrell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, kaolinitic, thermic Lithic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roughcreek
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 41cm
  • Geology: Og formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/24/2010 (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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    Bt

    0

    7

    7

    41

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    NSSL

    NSSL

    35

    49.4

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    23.9

    8.3

    9.9

    7.2

    14

    1.1

    41.1

    42.3

    sieves

    sieves

    14.7

    1.8

    11.9

    8

    6.5

    13.1

    5.6

    11.6

    2.4

    7.8

    300 mesh sieve

    300 mesh sieve

    cl

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    6.7

    7.2
    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A

    Bt

    0

    7

    7

    41

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    6.6

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

    Bt

    0

    7

    7

    41

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACGR

    ALGR2

    ARPUW

    BOBA3

    BOCU

    BOTR2

    DITE3

    JUAS

    MATR3

    OPENL

    PRGL2

    QUVI

    WEACH

    YUCCA

    Acacia greggii

    Aloysia gratissima

    Aristida purpurea var. wrightii

    Bothriochloa barbinodis

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua trifida

    Diospyros texana

    Juniperus ashei

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri

    Prosopis glandulosa

    Quercus virginiana

    Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida

    Yucca

    catclaw acacia

    whitebrush

    Wright's threeawn

    cane bluestem

    sideoats grama

    red grama

    Texas persimmon

    Ashe's juniper

    algerita

    Texas pricklypear

    honey mesquite

    live oak

    hairy wedelia

    yucca

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    41 -

    66 - -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—41

    8—41

    41—66

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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

    6

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    525.8

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    15

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—7 to 41 centimeters (2.8 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 53 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; very abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); fragments.