IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aledo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007_TX367_AlE_003
  • User Pedon ID: S2007TX367003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007_TX367_AlE_003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0179
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19683
  • 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: 32.6965599
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7594986
  • 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, carbonatic, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aledo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, thermic Ruptic-Lithic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 40 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 residuum weathered from limestone, unspecified
  • Landform: structural bench on hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 40cm
  • Geology: Goodland formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded 2- to 5-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • 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

    RHUS

    TRAGI

    SCSC

    AMDR

    YUCCA

    AMPS

    BOER4

    TRIDE

    Rhus

    Tragia

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    Amphiachyris dracunculoides

    Yucca

    Ambrosia psilostachya

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Tridens

    sumac

    noseburn

    little bluestem

    prairie broomweed

    yucca

    Cuman ragweed

    black grama

    tridens

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    40 - 54

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—40

    40—54

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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

    7

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    358

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    330

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 34 percent by volume nonflat subangular 20-?-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01193
    A2—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; extremely gravelly loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 14 percent by volume flat subangular 76-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-?-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular 20-?-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01194
    R—40 to 54 centimeters (15.7 to 21.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.