IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Palobia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX273010
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX273010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012TX273010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7917
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72861
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 27.3267059
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9495850
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX273—Kleberg
  • MLRA: 83E—Sandsheet Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 27097-C8—Paisano Lake, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Akin, David Hinojosa, Gary Harris, Richard Gelnar and Clark Harshbarger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Typic 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 - Palobia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Typic Natrustalfs
  • PSC - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: sand sheet
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • 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
    R083EY024TX Tight Sandy Loam

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/19/2012 (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 - partly cloudy
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap

    2Btn

    2Btkn1

    2Btkn2

    2Btkn3

    2Btkn4

    2BCk

    0

    19

    35

    73

    102

    134

    181

    19

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    73

    102

    134

    181

    203

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap

    2Btn

    2Btkn1

    2Btkn2

    2Btkn3

    2Btkn4

    2BCk

    0

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    35

    73

    102

    134

    181

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    73

    102

    134

    181

    203

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap

    2Btn

    2Btkn1

    2Btkn2

    2Btkn3

    2Btkn4

    2BCk

    0

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    35

    73

    102

    134

    181

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    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

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    1.8

    10.1

    25.2

    25.2

    25.2

    27.9

    27.9

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PAPL3

    PRGLG

    URMA3

    ZAFA

    Paspalum plicatulum

    Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa

    Urochloa maxima

    Zanthoxylum fagara

    brownseed paspalum

    honey mesquite

    guineagrass

    lime pricklyash

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—19

    19—181

    35—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

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; loose; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter, saturated paste.; observed in trench
    2Btn—19 to 35 centimeters (7.5 to 13.8 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 80 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste.; observed in trench
    2Btkn1—35 to 73 centimeters (13.8 to 28.7 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent coarse carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter, saturated paste.; observed in trench
    2Btkn2—73 to 102 centimeters (28.7 to 40.2 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent coarse carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter, saturated paste.; observed in trench
    2Btkn3—102 to 134 centimeters (40.2 to 52.8 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent coarse carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter, saturated paste.; observed in trench
    2Btkn4—134 to 181 centimeters (52.8 to 71.3 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent clay films; 3 percent coarse carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter, saturated paste.; observed in trench
    2BCk—181 to 203 centimeters (71.3 to 79.9 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 6 percent coarse carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter, saturated paste.; observed in trench