IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Corazones
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991-TX043-002-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1991-TX043-002-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0460
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63503
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 29.6324997
  • Std. Longitude: -103.0725021
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: from the junction of US 90 and US 385 in Marathon; 38.9 miles south on US 385; 7.2 miles southeast on Ranch road 2627; 30 feet north of road in range (0.5 miles past the entrance to Black Gap wildlife management area)
  • Map Unit: COE—Corazones very gravelly sandy loam, 1 to 30 percent slopes
  • 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-F1—Bone Spring NE, Texas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rex Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Typic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Corazones
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2015
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from igneous rock
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 70.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1991 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—8

    8—20

    20—152

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    14

    817

    270

    240

    860

    20.3

    PRISM

    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02630. common fine and medium roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very cobbly loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02631. common fine and medium roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Bk1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very cobbly loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 37 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02632. common lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; few fine and medium roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 1209937; continuous - phpvsfiid 1209937
    Bk2—46 to 97 centimeters (18.1 to 38.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; very gravelly loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 15 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats on rock fragments; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P02633. few lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 1209938; continuous - phpvsfiid 1209938
    Bk3—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 15 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1) carbonate coats on rock fragments; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P02634. few lime or carbonate coats surface features on rock fragments; effervescence is continuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1209939; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1209939