IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Padrones
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX273002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX273002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012TX273002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7909
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72878
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 27.4154549
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9951553
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX273—Kleberg
  • MLRA: 83E—Sandsheet Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 27097-D8—Escondido Lake, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Akin, David Hinojosa, Gary Harris, Shanna Dunn and Clark Harshbarger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Arenic Natrustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Padrones
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Arenic Natrustalfs
  • PSC - 47 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits over fine-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: Inland diseccted coastal plain
  • Landform: sand sheet
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: flat
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Silt Sheet formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R083EY022TX Loamy Sand

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/6/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CEPA8

    CHCU2

    COHO

    DITE3

    PECIC

    PROSO

    Celtis pallida

    Chloris cucullata

    Condalia hookeri

    Diospyros texana

    Pennisetum ciliare var. ciliare

    Prosopis

    spiny hackberry

    hooded windmill grass

    Brazilian bluewood

    Texas persimmon

    buffelgrass

    mesquite

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

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    redox concentrations

    secondary carbonates

    0—44

    44—63

    44—63

    63—210

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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

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    31.6

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loamy fine sand; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog.; observed in trench
    A—14 to 43 centimeters (5.5 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loamy fine sand; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog.; observed in trench
    2Bt—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent fine prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), dry, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog.; observed in trench
    2Btkn1—64 to 99 centimeters (25.2 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 29 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (2.0) fine roots between peds; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium irregular masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog.; observed in trench
    2Btkn2—99 to 129 centimeters (39.0 to 50.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots between peds; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog.; observed in trench
    2Btkn3—129 to 160 centimeters (50.8 to 63.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; few (1.0) fine tubular pores; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 1 percent fine calcite crystals in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench
    2Btkn4—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; few (0.5) very fine tubular pores; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 1 percent fine calcite crystals in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench