IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Miles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005TX169003
  • User Pedon ID: S2005TX169003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005TX169003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0180
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18036
  • 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: 33.2099457
  • Std. Longitude: -101.0736923
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX169—Garza
  • MLRA: 78—Central Rolling Red Plains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33101-B1—Cottonwood Creek, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ALS, JAG, TRD, WJG, SCH, RMR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Miles
  • PSC - 25 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Miles
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: high terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2005 (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

    AMBRO

    AMPHI8

    ARIST

    BUDA

    CHLOR

    CROTO

    OPENL

    PRGLG

    Ambrosia

    Amphiachyris

    Aristida

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Chloris

    Croton

    Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri

    Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa

    ragweed

    broomweed

    threeawn

    buffalograss

    windmill grass

    croton

    Texas pricklypear

    honey mesquite

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

    ochric epipedon

    abrupt textural change

    0—18

    170—200

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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

    2

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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00591
    A2—12 to 26 centimeters (4.7 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00592
    Bt1—26 to 62 centimeters (10.2 to 24.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine and fine roots between peds and 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 27 percent clay bridges on vertical faces of peds and 27 percent clay bridges on surfaces along pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00593
    Bt2—62 to 88 centimeters (24.4 to 34.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine and fine roots between peds and 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay bridges on faces of peds and 15 percent clay bridges on surfaces along pores and 15 percent clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00594
    Bt3—88 to 115 centimeters (34.6 to 45.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 31 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine and fine roots between peds and 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay bridges on faces of peds and 15 percent clay bridges on surfaces along pores and 15 percent clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00595
    Bt4—115 to 134 centimeters (45.3 to 52.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 23 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 8 percent clay bridges on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00596
    B/C—134 to 170 centimeters (52.8 to 66.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent carbonate masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00597
    2Ck—170 to 200 centimeters (66.9 to 78.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, moist; sand; structureless massive; soft, very friable; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 30 percent carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00598