IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX279002
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX279002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1212
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37562
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 33.9867194
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4045889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX279—Lamb
  • 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 - 6/25/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - SS-5

    • 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

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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—34

    34—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

    0.5

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    1111

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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; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—2 to 13 centimeters (0.8 to 5.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and medium structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very fine roots throughout; very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A3—13 to 34 centimeters (5.1 to 13.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and medium structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fine roots throughout; fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—34 to 50 centimeters (13.4 to 19.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine roots throughout; fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 553042; continuous - phpvsfiid 553042