IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aledo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007_TX367_AlE_001
  • User Pedon ID: S2007TX367001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007_TX367_AlE_001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0177
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19681
  • 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: 32.6967926
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7595444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX367—Parker
  • MLRA: 85—Grand Prairie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX367—Parker County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32097-G7—Weatherford North, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BLL, JRL, GWH, SCP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal over fragmental, carbonatic, thermic Udic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aledo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal over fragmental, carbonatic, thermic Udic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 49 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium derived from limestone, unspecified over residuum weathered from limestone, unspecified
  • Landform: structural bench, hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 49cm with <10
  • Geology: Goodland formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/2007 (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

    AMDR

    ASTER

    JUNIP

    PRAM

    PROSO

    LIPU

    SONU2

    AMPS

    YUCCA

    BOHI2

    SCSC

    Amphiachyris dracunculoides

    Aster

    Juniperus

    Prunus americana

    Prosopis

    Liatris punctata

    Sorghastrum nutans

    Ambrosia psilostachya

    Yucca

    Bouteloua hirsuta

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    prairie broomweed

    aster

    juniper

    American plum

    mesquite

    dotted blazing star

    Indiangrass

    Cuman ragweed

    yucca

    hairy grama

    little bluestem

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—14

    14—25

    25—49

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    11/6/2007

    20

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    17
    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

    7

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    354

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    330

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; gravelly silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 35 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01186
    Bw—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly clay loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 45 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 38 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01187
    Bk—25 to 49 centimeters (9.8 to 19.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent carbonate masses throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 20-?-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 42 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 08N01188
    R—49 to 61 centimeters (19.3 to 24.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.