IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX017005
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX017005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1204
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37554
  • 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: 33.8468194
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6565889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX017—Bailey
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX017—Bailey County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Todd Carr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Classificaton Date - 6/10/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - SS-4

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/10/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—50

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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

    0.3

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    1131.7

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    225

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; loam; weak fine platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A2—2 to 13 centimeters (0.8 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fine roots throughout; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—36 to 50 centimeters (14.2 to 19.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fine roots throughout; fragments.; observed in pit, small