IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clareville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX273014
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX273014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012TX273014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7920
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72920
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 27.2963333
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0465546
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX273—Kleberg
  • MLRA: 83E—Sandsheet Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 27098-C1—Premont East, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Akin, David Hinojosa, Gary Harris, Richard Gelnar and Clark Harshbarger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Typic Argiustolls
  • 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 - Clareville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 12 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2012
  • 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: alluvium
  • Landscape: sandsheet plains
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Geology: Quaternary Alluvium 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
    R083BY025TX Clay Loam

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/21/2012 (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 - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CEPA8

    DITE3

    PRGLG

    ZAFA

    Celtis pallida

    Diospyros texana

    Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa

    Zanthoxylum fagara

    spiny hackberry

    Texas persimmon

    honey mesquite

    lime pricklyash

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—45

    12—134

    134—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

    0.5

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    30

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    135

    711

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    22

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 69 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 8.0 fine tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt1—12 to 45 centimeters (4.7 to 17.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay; 55 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 41 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt2—45 to 105 centimeters (17.7 to 41.3 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; sandy clay; 48 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 50 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, nonplastic; high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt3—105 to 134 centimeters (41.3 to 52.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), gray (10YR 5/1), moist; clay; 42 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 48 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Btk—134 to 203 centimeters (52.8 to 79.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light gray (10YR 7/1), moist; clay; 38 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 52 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; high excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent coarse prominent weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate nodules in matrix and 3 percent coarse prominent noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate nodules in matrix and 7 percent medium distinct weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench