IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX219007
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX219007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1217
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37528
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 33.6286306
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5158611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX219—Hockley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX219—Hockley 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 - 6/8/2010
  • 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-3

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/2010 (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—11

    11—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

    0.1

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    1100.3

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    225

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    Ap1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine roots throughout; very fine vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—2 to 11 centimeters (0.8 to 4.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine roots throughout; fine vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—11 to 34 centimeters (4.3 to 13.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fine roots throughout; fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on top faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 530694; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 530694
    Btb—34 to 50 centimeters (13.4 to 19.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fine roots throughout; fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on tops of soil columns; fragments; very slight effervescence.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 530695; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 530695