IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bippus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: very fine sandy loam, occasionally fl.
  • User Site ID: S2003TX195003
  • User Pedon ID: S2003TX195003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0762
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15728
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 36.1642761
  • Std. Longitude: -101.4465866
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sheet C-6 west of highway in stream bank
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX195—Hansford
  • MLRA: 77E—Southern High Plains, Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX195—Hansford County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36101-B4—Hannas Draw East, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T.C. Byrd, J.K Attebury, J. Anderson, S. McGowen, T. Morley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bippus
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/15/2016
  • Classifier - Steven McGowen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bippus
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2003
  • Classifier - T.C. Byrd, J.K Attebury, J. Anderson, S. McGowen, T. Morley
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Holocene loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: dissected high plains
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R077EY058TX Loamy Bottomland 16-24" PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: C-6
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—180

    20—180

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    —160—
    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

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 7.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03810; observed in cut
    Bw1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 7.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03811; observed in cut
    Bw2—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 7.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03812; observed in cut
    Bw3—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 4.0 very fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03813; observed in cut
    Bw4—119 to 180 centimeters (46.9 to 70.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 4.0 very fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N03814; observed in cut
    BC—180 to 203 centimeters (70.9 to 79.9 inches);, 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 03N03815; observed in cut