IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palopinto
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984TX429001
  • User Pedon ID: S1984TX429001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0774
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55017
  • 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: 32.6008333
  • Std. Longitude: -98.6552778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Stephens County, Texas; Representative pedon of Palopinto very flaggy loam; From the intersection of Farm Road 207 in Lacasa, 0.5 mile south on Farm Road 171, 2.0 miles east on Farm Road 207, 0.35 mile north along fence, 35 feet west in an area of rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX429—Stephens
  • MLRA: 80B—Texas North-Central Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX429—Stephens County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32098-E6—La Casa, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cyprian and Clyde Lowther
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Palopinto
  • PSC - 0 to 27 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palopinto
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Lithic Haplustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1984
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 27cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: SS #39
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    27 - 30

    - 3 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—27

    27—30

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    —3—
    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

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    A1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very cobbly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.5) fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04322
    A2—4 to 12 centimeters (1.6 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; common (2.5) fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04323
    A/R—12 to 27 centimeters (4.7 to 10.6 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; extremely stony clay loam, weathered bedrock; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 600-750-1000 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04324
    R—27 to 30 centimeters (10.6 to 11.8 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Hard platy limestone bedrock.