IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lingua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995-TX043-303-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1995-TX043-303-copy
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994-TX043-303-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0425
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10695
  • 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: 29.9206917
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6970694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Brewster County, Texas; from the junction of US Highway 90 and Texas Highway 118 in Alpine, 32.3 miles south on Texas Highway 118 to 02 Ranch gate, 5.3 miles southwest on 02 Ranch headquarters road, 2.5 miles northwest through Cottonwood Springs, 2.0 miles west on ranch road, 1.2 miles southeast and then west on ranch road, site is 50 feet south of road in range. NAD 27, Duff Springs U.S.G.S Quadrangle.
  • 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-H6—Duff Springs, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lynn Loomis, Jerry Rives, and Alan Terrell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 303
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lingua (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 20 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/2016
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lingua
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, nonacid, therm
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1995
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: basalt at 20cm
  • Geology: Cottonwood Spring Basalt formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 75.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter basalt, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1995 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACCOC

    ARTE3

    BOCU

    BOER4

    COSP3

    DICA8

    KOSP

    NOTE

    OPIM

    TRAGI

    Acacia constricta var. constricta

    Aristida ternipes

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Condalia spathulata

    Digitaria californica

    Koeberlinia spinosa

    Nolina texana

    Opuntia imbricata

    Tragia

    whitethorn acacia

    spidergrass

    sideoats grama

    black grama

    knifeleaf condalia

    Arizona cottontop

    crown of thorns

    Texas sacahuista

    tree cholla

    noseburn

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    20 - 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—20

    20—20

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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

    30

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    305

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    18.9

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; GRV-L of Field texture class; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P02463; observed in pit, small. slightly alkaline; 4 to 20 inches thick. The A horizon has color with hues of 5YR to 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 to 4. Texture of the fine earth fraction is loam, sandy clay loam, or clay loam. Clay content ranges from 20 to 35 percent. Calcium carbonate equivalent of the fine earth fraction is less that 15 percent. Some pedons have thin coatings of lime on rock fragments. Also sampled as 97P0365.
    R—20 to 200 centimeters (7.9 to 78.7 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; bedrock; indurated; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small. The R horizon is unweathered basalt bedrock. The unweathered bedrock is coarsely fractured with lime coatings that are strongly cemented to indurated in the vertical fractures in some pedons.