IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Texroy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: very fine sandy loam
  • User Site ID: S1997TX065003
  • User Pedon ID: S1997TX065003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S97TX065003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0386
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10656
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 35.5483055
  • Std. Longitude: -101.5974197
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Carson County, on the east side of Fritch, take HWY 687 south 1.5 miles; take right fork in road, follow for 2.5 miles past Poling Ranch house; continue for 0.75 mile south of road intersection.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX065—Carson
  • MLRA: 77E—Southern High Plains, Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX065—Carson County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35101-E5—Deal, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MLRA77 Survey Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Texroy
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/2016
  • Classifier - Steven McGowen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alibates
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: late Pleistocene to early Holocene loamy eolian deposits over loamy slope alluvium
  • Landscape: dissected high plains
  • Landform: erosion remnant
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ogallala Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/1997 (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

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    PAOB

    BOCU

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Panicum obtusum

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    vine mesquite

    sideoats grama

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—67

    13—188

    188—203

    —67—

    —175—

    —15—
    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

    1

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P02255; observed in trench
    Bt1—13 to 48 centimeters (5.1 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P02256; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 1393498; continuous - phpvsfiid 1393498
    Bt2—48 to 67 centimeters (18.9 to 26.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P02256; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 1393497; continuous - phpvsfiid 1393497
    Btk1—67 to 94 centimeters (26.4 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P02258; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 1393496; continuous - phpvsfiid 1393496
    Btk2—94 to 145 centimeters (37.0 to 57.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses throughout and 1 percent fine moderately coherent cemented carbonate concretions throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02259; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1393495; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1393495
    Btk3—145 to 188 centimeters (57.1 to 74.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout and 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P02260; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1393494; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1393494
    Btk4—188 to 203 centimeters (74.0 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions throughout and 15 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; 1 percent by volume ? to 5-? millimeter quartz-diorite fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8. Lab sample # 98P02261; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 1393493; patchy - phpvsfiid 1393493