IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Papagua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX273004
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX273004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012TX273004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7911
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72963
  • Print Date: 1/11/2025

    • 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: 27.3751698
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0272598
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX273—Kleberg
  • MLRA: 83E—Sandsheet Prairie
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX613—Kenedy and Kleberg Counties, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 27098-D1—Ella, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Akin, David Hinojosa, Gary Harris, Shanna Dunn and Clark Harshbarger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, hyperthermic Typic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Papagua
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, hyperthermic Typic Albaqualfs
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/8/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits over clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: Inland dissected coastal plain
  • Landform: depression on sand sheet
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • 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
    R083EY007TX Lakebed

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/8/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 25
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2FA

    ACFA

    CYDA

    OXALI

    PRGLG

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    Acacia farnesiana

    Cynodon dactylon

    Oxalis

    Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa

    Forb, annual

    aroma

    Bermudagrass

    woodsorrel

    honey mesquite

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    reduced matrix

    redox concentrations

    0—30

    30—143

    30—143

    30—203

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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

    1

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    31.1

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    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loamy fine sand; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    2Btg1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy clay; 38 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very high excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), dry, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on surfaces along root channels; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    2Btg2—56 to 109 centimeters (22.0 to 42.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; sandy clay; 39 percent clay; strong very coarse angular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very high excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular pores; 85 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent coarse spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 3 percent coarse faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    2Btg3—109 to 143 centimeters (42.9 to 56.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay; 48 percent clay; strong very coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; extremely high excavation difficulty; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent medium irregular black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium irregular reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), dry, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; very dry when described; observed in trench
    2BC—143 to 203 centimeters (56.3 to 79.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay; 55 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; extremely high excavation difficulty; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent medium irregular black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese nodules with clear boundaries in matrix and 15 percent fine irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; very dry when described; observed in trench