IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Borunda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995-TX043-125-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1995-TX622-125-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0418
  • 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: 29.8100444
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6241972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From Alpine; 42.8 miles south on Texas Highway 118 to gate on 02 Ranch, 2.95 miles west on ranch road, 100 feet south of road in range.
  • 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-G5—Buck Hill, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lynn Loomis, Jerry Rives, and Alan Terrell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, superactive, thermic Ustic Calcigypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Borunda (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2013
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/27/1995 (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, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

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    71 - 102

    102 - 157

    - 31 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    gypsic horizon

    paralithic materials

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    8—71

    30—71

    71—102

    71—71

    —8—

    —63—

    —41—

    —31—

    —0—
    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

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    1131

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    330

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bk1—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bk2—30 to 71 centimeters (11.8 to 28.0 inches); fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench. Clay texture is field estimate since gypsum flocculated the particle size analysis lab sample.
    Crk1—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); moderately coherent; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Crk2—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); strongly coherent; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Cr—130 to 157 centimeters (51.2 to 61.8 inches); strongly coherent; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench