IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bissett-entisol
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008-TX109-023
  • User Pedon ID: S2008-TX109-023
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08-TX109-023
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - GWHT2010-TX109-0003
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S08TX109023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45589
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 31.2955589
  • Std. Longitude: -104.4105225
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX109—Culberson
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31104-C4—Dome Hill, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Hallmark, Jim Clausen, James Gordon, Tyson Morley, Deanna Faubion, and Riley Dayberry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, thermic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bissett-entisol
  • PSC - 0 to 14 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2019
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone, unspecified
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 14cm with <10
  • Geology: Rustler Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 52.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 12.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/9/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARIST

    BOER4

    YUCCA

    KRER

    PAIN2

    TICAC

    VIST

    GUSA2

    OPENE

    AGLE

    Aristida

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Yucca

    Krameria erecta

    Parthenium incanum

    Tiquilia canescens var. canescens

    Viguiera stenoloba

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Opuntia engelmannii var. engelmannii

    Agave lechuguilla

    threeawn

    black grama

    yucca

    littleleaf ratany

    mariola

    woody crinklemat

    resinbush

    broom snakeweed

    cactus apple

    lechuguilla

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    14 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—14

    14—14

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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

    12

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    1317

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7308; observed in pit, small
    R—14 to 200 centimeters (5.5 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; 50 percent by volume flat 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # TAMU7309; observed in pit, small