IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Plemons
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997TX375001
  • User Pedon ID: S1997TX375001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0387
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10657
  • 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: 35.3611107
  • Std. Longitude: -101.6423340
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: One half mile N of intersection of Hwy. 293 and Hwy. 136, through gate on W side of 136, approx. 0.1 mile WNW in rangeland.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX375—Potter
  • MLRA: 77E—Southern High Plains, Breaks
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MLRA77 Survey Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcidic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Plemons (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Plemons
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ogallala Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Loamy (077EY057TX)
  • 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

    calcic horizon

    0—15

    33—80

    33—80

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    4

    1085

    0

    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine roots and fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, soil test; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.0 very fine roots and fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary.
    Btk1—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; 3.0 very fine roots and fine roots; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; coarse noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 30 percent medium ; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btk2—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 18 percent carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear smooth boundary.
    Btk3—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 20 percent fine distinct manganese coatings with clear boundaries on faces of peds; carbonate masses at top of horizon and coarse carbonate masses throughout and 30 percent medium ; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btk4—117 to 147 centimeters (46.1 to 57.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium distinct manganese coatings with clear boundaries on faces of peds; coarse distinct carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries and 50 percent medium ; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btk5—147 to 193 centimeters (57.9 to 76.0 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 25 percent distinct carbonate coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium manganese coatings with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 5 percent medium noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear smooth boundary.
    Btk6—193 to 203 centimeters (76.0 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 5 percent distinct carbonate coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium manganese coatings with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 10 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8.