IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mariscal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990-TX043-005-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1990-TX043-005-copy
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - TAMU-1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S90TX043005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45747
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 29.6711250
  • Std. Longitude: -103.5878028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX043—Brewster
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-MAF—Marfa, Texas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX622—Brewster County, Texas (Main Part)
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 29103-F5—Dog Canyon, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rex Cochran, Jerry Rives, Alan Terrell, John Jacob, Sharon Elias, Mike Mungoven, and Steven Zuberbueler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, hyperthermic Lithic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mariscal
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2015
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mariscal
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly residuum weathered from limestone
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 42cm
  • Geology: Boquillas Formatin formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent flat subangular indurated 150- to 380-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 30.00 percent flat subangular indurated 2- to 150-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    42 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    42—42

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    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

    4

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    1096.5

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    219

    309

    663

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    18.6

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    PRISM

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    Ak—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few medium roots and few fine roots; 35 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU4119; observed in pit, small
    Bk—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely flaggy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 80 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 150-250-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU4120; observed in pit, small
    Ck—28 to 42 centimeters (11.0 to 16.5 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; extremely flaggy loam; structureless massive; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 90 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-250-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU4121; observed in pit, small
    R—42 to 200 centimeters (16.5 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; indurated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # TAMU4122; observed in pit, small