IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005TX169002
  • User Pedon ID: S2005TX169002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005TX169002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0179
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18035
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 32.0096931
  • Std. Longitude: -101.3423080
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX169—Garza
  • MLRA: 78—Central Rolling Red Plains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33101-A3—Cooper Creek, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ALS, JAG, TRD, WJG, SCH, RMR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy Aridic Lithic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Latom
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Latom
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from Triassic sandstone
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified at 50cm
  • Surface Fragments: quartzite, chert,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/2005 (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

    ACGR

    AMDR

    ARIST

    BOCU

    BOHI2

    BOTR2

    BUDA

    CRTE4

    DAFO

    GUSA2

    JUNIP

    MIAC3

    OPENL

    PRGLG

    RHUS

    SPCR

    TRIDE

    YUCCA

    ZIOB

    Acacia greggii

    Amphiachyris dracunculoides

    Aristida

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua hirsuta

    Bouteloua trifida

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Croton texensis

    Dalea formosa

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Juniperus

    Mimosa aculeaticarpa

    Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri

    Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa

    Rhus

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Tridens

    Yucca

    Ziziphus obtusifolia

    catclaw acacia

    prairie broomweed

    threeawn

    sideoats grama

    hairy grama

    red grama

    buffalograss

    Texas croton

    featherplume

    broom snakeweed

    juniper

    catclaw mimosa

    Texas pricklypear

    honey mesquite

    sumac

    sand dropseed

    tridens

    yucca

    lotebush

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    50 - 66

    66 - 91

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—17

    17—50

    50—66

    66—91

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    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

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    753.3

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00585
    A2—5 to 17 centimeters (2.0 to 6.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout; 0.1 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00586
    Bk1—17 to 25 centimeters (6.7 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; low excavation difficulty; 0.1 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent carbonate masses throughout; 1 percent by volume flat ? to 500-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00587
    Bk2—25 to 50 centimeters (9.8 to 19.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 23 percent clay; 10 percent reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) fine and medium prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; low excavation difficulty; 0.1 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent carbonate masses throughout; 1 percent by volume flat ? to 500-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00588
    Crk—50 to 66 centimeters (19.7 to 26.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) broken face, olive (5Y 4/3) broken face, moist; structureless massive; high excavation difficulty; 0.1 very fine and fine roots throughout; 50 percent carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00589
    R—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); light greenish gray (10Y 7/1) broken face, greenish gray (10Y 6/1) broken face, moist; structureless massive; extremely high excavation difficulty; 0.1 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00590