IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aguena
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008-TX109-027
  • User Pedon ID: S2008-TX109-027
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08-TX109-027
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T2010-TX109-0012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S08TX109027
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45593
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 31.1779385
  • Std. Longitude: -104.6188126
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX109—Culberson
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-MAF—Marfa, Texas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX626—Culberson County, Main Part, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31104-B5—Goat Canyon, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Hallmark, Jim Clausen, James Gordon, Tyson Morley, Deanna Faubion, and Riley Dayberry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Siliceous, thermic Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aguena
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2017
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penwell
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands derived from sandstone, unspecified
  • Landform: dune
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/10/2008 (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

    ACCOC

    ERAGR

    SPFL2

    ARFI2

    ATCA2

    COER5

    YUCCA

    Acacia constricta var. constricta

    Eragrostis

    Sporobolus flexuosus

    Artemisia filifolia

    Atriplex canescens

    Condalia ericoides

    Yucca

    whitethorn acacia

    lovegrass

    mesa dropseed

    sand sagebrush

    fourwing saltbush

    javelina bush

    yucca

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—12

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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

    3

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    1139

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, moist; fine sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7330; observed in trench
    C1—12 to 47 centimeters (4.7 to 18.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; fine sand; 2 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; soft, very friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7331; observed in trench
    C2—47 to 95 centimeters (18.5 to 37.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; fine sand; 2 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; soft, very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7332; observed in trench
    C3—95 to 152 centimeters (37.4 to 59.8 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, moist; fine sand; 2 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; soft, very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7333; observed in trench
    C4—152 to 213 centimeters (59.8 to 83.9 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, moist; fine sand; 2 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; soft, very friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-10 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # TAMU7334; observed in trench