IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Laverne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: loam
  • User Site ID: S1998TX295004
  • User Pedon ID: S1998TX295004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10884
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 36.1413167
  • Std. Longitude: -100.3930972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX295—Lipscomb
  • MLRA: 77E—Southern High Plains, Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX295—Lipscomb County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36100-B4—Barton Corners, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Troy Collier, Steve Alspach, Carl Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Calciustolls
  • 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 - Laverne (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/2020
  • Classifier - Steven McGowen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Laverne
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Lithic Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1998
  • Classifier - Troy Collier, Steve Alspach, Carl Woods
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Neogene calcareous loamy residuum weathered from arenaceous limestone
  • Landscape: dissected high plains
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 48
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    42 - 203

    - 161 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—26

    26—42

    42—203

    —26—

    —16—

    —161—
    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

    15

    —

    808

    —

    30

    508

    —

    185

    14

    —

    —

    15

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ak—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules throughout and 1 percent fine cylindrical worm casts throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments observed by weighed method and 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments observed by weighed method and 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments observed by weighed method; first stage carbonates developed in the fine earth fraction; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P00159; observed in trench
    Bk—26 to 42 centimeters (10.2 to 16.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, moist; very gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular and 10.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 25 percent fine cylindrical worm casts throughout and 3 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules throughout; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments observed by weighed method and 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-75 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments observed by weighed method and 22 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments observed by weighed method; third stage carbonates developed in the fine earth fraction; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P00160; observed in trench
    R—42 to 203 centimeters (16.5 to 79.9 inches); white (10YR 8/1) exterior bedrock; very strongly coherent; extremely high excavation difficulty; 10.0 medium roots top of horizon and 10.0 fine roots top of horizon; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P00161