IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): AMARILLO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959TX227090
  • User Pedon ID: S1959TX227090
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4471
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40624
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 86 steps S parallel to US Highway 87 from power pole in N boundary fence row. NW portion of Big Spring Experiment Station.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX227—Howard
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX227—Howard County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harvey Oakes and George W. 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 - 30 to 80 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
    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 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34196
    A12—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34197
    A13—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 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; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34198
    B21t—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm; 21.0 fine pores; faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 21 percent worm casts; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34199. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 173721; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 173721
    B22t—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable; 21.0 fine pores; 3 percent worm casts; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34200
    B23tca—99 to 145 centimeters (39.0 to 57.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34201
    B24tca—145 to 183 centimeters (57.1 to 72.0 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34202
    Bca—183 to 244 centimeters (72.0 to 96.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A34203. Less visible CaCO3 concretions than horizon above.