IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rumple
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011TX411019
  • User Pedon ID: S2011TX411019
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2011TX411019
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8436
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55281
  • 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: 31.1780281
  • Std. Longitude: -99.0848389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX411—San Saba
  • MLRA: 81B—Edwards Plateau, Central Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX411—San Saba County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31099-B1—Lost Creek, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Travis Waiser, Jessica Jobe, Richard Gelnar, Alan Deubler, Ashley Newsome, Juan Saenz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, thermic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rumple
  • PSC - 6 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rumple
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, thermic Lithic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: dissected plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 42cm
  • Geology: Og formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACGR

    ALGR2

    ARPU9

    BORI

    NALE3

    OPLE

    OPUNT

    PAHA

    PRGL2

    SPCOC2

    Acacia greggii

    Aloysia gratissima

    Aristida purpurea

    Bouteloua rigidiseta

    Nassella leucotricha

    Opuntia leptocaulis

    Opuntia

    Panicum hallii

    Prosopis glandulosa

    Sporobolus compositus var. compositus

    catclaw acacia

    whitebrush

    purple threeawn

    Texas grama

    Texas wintergrass

    Christmas cactus

    pricklypear

    Hall's panicgrass

    honey mesquite

    composite dropseed

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    55 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—25

    6—55

    55—

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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

    6

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    502

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    140

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots top of horizon; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N08619; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—6 to 25 centimeters (2.4 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist; very cobbly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 380-?-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-?-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N08620; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—25 to 55 centimeters (9.8 to 21.7 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; extremely cobbly clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 11N08621; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—55 centimeters (21.7 inches); fragments.