IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palopinto
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981TX237004
  • User Pedon ID: S1981TX237004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0163
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50403
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 33.1891667
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9316667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Jack County, Texas; from Wizard Wells, TX about 0.5 miles East on FM1156, then about 2 miles SouthEast on gravel road, 150 feet South in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX237—Jack
  • MLRA: 80B—Texas North-Central Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX237—Jack County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33097-B8—Wizard Wells, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. S. Dowell and J. C. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Palopinto
  • PSC - 0 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Yates
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid, thermic Lithic Ustochrepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 40cm
  • Geology: Canyon Group Of Pennsylvanian Age group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    40 - 51

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—28

    40—51

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    —11—
    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

    3

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    314

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; very stony silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P00858
    A2—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; extremely stony silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots around fragments; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent worm casts; 75 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00859
    BC/R—28 to 40 centimeters (11.0 to 15.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; extremely stony silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00860
    R—40 to 51 centimeters (15.7 to 20.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.