IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PORTALES
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953TX305061
  • User Pedon ID: S1953TX305061
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4518
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40670
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 33.0708351
  • Std. Longitude: -101.7430573
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 8.5 miles S of Tahoka and 4.5 miles E of US Highway 87.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX305—Lynn
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX305—Lynn County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. C. Mowery and E. H. Templin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Aridic Calciustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 61
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PORTALES
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Portales
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A34539
    A12—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; strong medium granular, and weak prismatic structure; hard, friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A34540
    B—38 to 79 centimeters (15.0 to 31.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium granular, and weak prismatic structure; hard, friable; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A34541
    C1ca—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), moist; clay loam; friable; 21 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A34542
    C2ca—114 to 168 centimeters (44.9 to 66.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), moist; clay; friable; 21 percent carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34543. Less whitish and contains less lime than the horizon above.