IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bovina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011TX369001
  • User Pedon ID: S2011TX369001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0472
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47560
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 34.4666667
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6536944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX369—Parmer

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Seth Sowder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcidic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bovina
  • PSC - 12 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bovina
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/2011 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—38

    12—60

    38—203

    114—203

    —38—

    —48—

    —165—

    —89—
    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
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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02503; observed in pit, small
    Btk1—12 to 38 centimeters (4.7 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 22 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented white (7.5YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented white (7.5YR 8/1), dry, carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02504; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 568606; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 568606
    Btk2—38 to 60 centimeters (15.0 to 23.6 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented white (7.5YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 12 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented white (7.5YR 8/1), dry, carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix and 2 percent medium distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented white (7.5YR 8/1), dry, carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02505; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 568607; patchy - phpvsfiid 568607
    Bkk—60 to 114 centimeters (23.6 to 44.9 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), pink (7.5YR 7/3), moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 35 percent fine carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 15 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented white (7.5YR 8/1), dry, carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented white (7.5YR 8/1), dry, carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N02506; observed in pit, small
    2Btk1—114 to 176 centimeters (44.9 to 69.3 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 28 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 6 percent medium distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N02507; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 568608; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 568608
    2Btk2—176 to 203 centimeters (69.3 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent coarse distinct irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 11N02508; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 568609; patchy - phpvsfiid 568609