IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX017007
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX017007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1206
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37556
  • 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: 33.9085000
  • Std. Longitude: -102.7017194
  • 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: Craig Byrd
  • 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 - 6/11/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - CRP-4

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—9

    9—96

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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

    0.6

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    180

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    Ap1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very fine roots top of horizon; very fine vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—2 to 9 centimeters (0.8 to 3.5 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine roots throughout; fine vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—9 to 28 centimeters (3.5 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fine roots throughout; fine vesicular pores; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 530702; continuous - phpvsfiid 530702
    Bt2—28 to 50 centimeters (11.0 to 19.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fine roots throughout; fine vesicular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 530703; continuous - phpvsfiid 530703
    Bt3—50 to 96 centimeters (19.7 to 37.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8), red (2.5YR 4/8), moist; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fine roots throughout; fine vesicular pores; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; very slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 530704; continuous - phpvsfiid 530704
    Bkkm—96 to 150 centimeters (37.8 to 59.1 inches); fragments; violent effervescence.; observed in push tube