IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pyote
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991-TX495-038-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1991-TX495-038
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0706
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63745
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 31.8769436
  • Std. Longitude: -103.1097260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Winkler County, Texas; from the jct of Texas Highway 115 and Texas Highway 18 in Kermit, 1.25 miles north on Texas Highway 18, 0.45 mi west on Winkler County Road 683, 0.5 mi north on caliche road, then 45 feet east in range.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX495—Winkler
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX615—Loving and Winkler Counties, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31103-H1—Vesrue, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry Rives, Sharon Elias, Alan Terrell,
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Arenic Ustic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 38
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pyote (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 91 to 141 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pyote
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Arenic Ustalfic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1991 (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

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—91

    91—160

    188—200

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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

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    876

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    30

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04028; observed in trench. few coarse roots throughout; common fine and medium roots throughout
    E1—10 to 53 centimeters (3.9 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04029; observed in trench. few coarse roots throughout; common fine and medium roots throughout
    E2—53 to 91 centimeters (20.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; loamy fine sand; single grain; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04030; observed in trench. few coarse roots throughout; common fine and medium roots throughout
    Bt1—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; faint clay films between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04031; observed in trench. few fine and medium roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1209855; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1209855
    Bt2—112 to 140 centimeters (44.1 to 55.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; faint clay films between sand grains and clay bridges; 11 percent fine and medium irregular iron-manganese masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04032; observed in trench. 10YR 2/1 manganese masses on faces of peds; common fine and medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine and medium roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 1209856; patchy - phpvsfiid 1209856
    Bt3—140 to 160 centimeters (55.1 to 63.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; loamy fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 coarse roots throughout; faint clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04033; observed in trench. few coarse roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 1209858; patchy - phpvsfiid 1209858
    BCt—160 to 188 centimeters (63.0 to 74.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; fine sand; single grain; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04034; observed in trench. few medium and coarse roots throughout
    BCk—188 to 200 centimeters (74.0 to 78.7 inches); white (10YR 8/1), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P04035; observed in trench. weakly cemented calcium carbonate with a gravelly loam texture; 30 percent subangular caliche fragments mostly less than 2 inches across