IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX219001
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX219001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0080
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24775
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 33.6567500
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2059694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX219—Hockley
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX219—Hockley County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.K. Attebury
  • 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 - 10/6/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - SS-1

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R077CY036TX Sandy Loam 16-21" PZ Jun 3 2022

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/2009 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—13

    13—148

    148—

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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

    0.7

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    1052

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); weak red (7.5R 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fine roots throughout; ; fragments; noneffervescent.
    A2—2 to 13 centimeters (0.8 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout and coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fine roots throughout; fine tubular pores; 50 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt2—30 to 83 centimeters (11.8 to 32.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fine roots throughout; fine tubular pores; 50 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent.
    Btk1—83 to 123 centimeters (32.7 to 48.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent ; 2 percent medium carbonate masses throughout; fragments; slight effervescence.
    Btk2—123 to 148 centimeters (48.4 to 58.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent ; 5 percent medium carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence.
    Btkk—148 centimeters (58.3 inches); pink (5YR 7/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent ; 60 percent coarse carbonate masses throughout and 10 percent medium carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence.