IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Slaughter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX079003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX079003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12TX079003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7774
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55260
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 33.7994461
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6743698
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX079—Cochran
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX079—Cochran County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33102-G6—County Line, Texas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MLRA-77 Soil Survey Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Slaughter
  • PSC - 17 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/26/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Slaughter
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey eolian deposits
  • Landform: plain on plateau
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Ogallala Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/2011 (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
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACGR

    BOCU

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    YUCCA

    Acacia greggii

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Yucca

    catclaw acacia

    sideoats grama

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    yucca

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

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    40 - 100

    - 60 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—32

    17—40

    40—100

    —32—

    —23—

    —60—

    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

    1140

    1

    A—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine and 2.0 fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt1—17 to 32 centimeters (6.7 to 12.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; clay; 42 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary.; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 821276; continuous - phpvsfiid 821276
    Bt2—32 to 40 centimeters (12.6 to 15.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-30-76 millimeter petrogypsic fragments fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 821277; continuous - phpvsfiid 821277
    Bkkm—40 to 100 centimeters (15.7 to 39.4 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), pinkish white (7.5YR 8.5/2), moist; cemented material; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; violent effervescence.; observed in trench