IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wickett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992-TX043-005-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1992-TX495-037-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0708
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63747
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 30.4383335
  • Std. Longitude: -103.4369431
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the junction of US Highway 67 and US Highway 90, 8 miles east of Alpine; 4.6 miles north on US highway 67 to junction with Benge Road, 3.5 miles east on Benge Road; 0.2 miles north on trail along fence, then 40 feet west of trail in range.
  • Map Unit: SOA—Stovall silt loam, 0 to 3 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: 30103-D4—Bissett Mountain, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry Rives, Sharon Elias, and Alan Terrell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, superactive, thermic Ustalfic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 37
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wickett (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 38 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wickett
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Petrocalcic Ustalfic
  • 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

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/3/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—38

    38—91

    91—160

    160—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

    2

    213

    30.5

    1259

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    0

    279

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; loamy fine sand of Field texture class; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P4041; observed in trench. few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    A2—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loamy fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P4042; observed in trench. few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt1—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; loamy fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular and 0.5 coarse continuous tubular pores; faint clay bridges on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; fine sandy loam of Field texture class; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P4043; observed in trench. few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 1046761; patchy - phpvsfiid 1046761
    Bt2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; loamy fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular and 0.5 coarse continuous tubular pores; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and clay bridges; fragments; fine sandy loam of Field texture class; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P4044; observed in trench. few coarse roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 1046762; patchy - phpvsfiid 1046762
    Bt3—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4045; observed in trench. organic stains concentrated along root channels, few fine irregular organic stains in lower part of horizon, few fine soft calcium carbonate masses in lower part of horizon, few fine irregular calcium carbonate concretions; few very fine and fine roots throughout; few coarse roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1046764; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1046764
    Bkkm—91 to 160 centimeters (35.8 to 63.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1) cemented material; massive; very strongly coherent; fragments; field texture; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P4046; observed in trench. indurated calcium carbonate with thin laminar cap 1/8 to 1/2 in thick; effervescence is continuous
    BCk—160 to 200 centimeters (63.0 to 78.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) gravelly sandy loam; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments; loam of field texture; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P4047; observed in trench. weakly to strongly cemented calcium carbonate with a loam texture; 15 to 75 percent caliche fragments in strongly cemented layers; effervescence is continuous