IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): AMARILLO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959TX115090
  • User Pedon ID: S1959TX115090
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4470
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40623
  • 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: 32.5966682
  • Std. Longitude: -101.7788925
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 14 miles S of Lamesa; site located .05 miles E of Highway 87 on S side of country road; 12 steps S into field S of power pole.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX115—Dawson
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX115—Dawson County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dupree Sanders and George Kunze
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Aridic Paleustalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 90
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - AMARILLO
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/1959
  • 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: 4/4/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    AP—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34187
    A12—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34188
    B21t—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; weak and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 21.0 fine pores; 21 percent worm casts; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34189
    B22t—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine pores; clay films; 3 percent worm casts; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34190. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 173719; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 173719
    B23t—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 3.0 fine pores; clay films; 3 percent worm casts; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34191. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 173720; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 173720
    B24tca—97 to 150 centimeters (38.2 to 59.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3.0 fine pores; 1 percent worm casts and 21 percent carbonate threads; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34192
    B25tca—150 to 191 centimeters (59.1 to 75.2 inches); pink (5YR 7/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; loam; 21 percent carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34193
    B26tca—191 to 236 centimeters (75.2 to 92.9 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34194
    IIC—236 to 279 centimeters (92.9 to 109.8 inches); pink (5YR 8/3), pink (5YR 7/3), moist; loam; 21 percent carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34195