IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12TX279002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX279002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N2365
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72986
  • 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: 34.0426111
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3025000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Olton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - cotton lint
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R077CY022TX Deep Hardland 16-21" PZ
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/13/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—44

    19—150

    99—150

    —44—

    —131—

    —51—

    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

    1106

    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03192
    Bt1—19 to 44 centimeters (7.5 to 17.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03193. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1112600; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1112600
    Bt2—44 to 71 centimeters (17.3 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; few fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03194. continuous - phpvsfiid 1112601; continuous - phpvsfiid 1112601
    Btk1—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03195. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1112602; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1112602
    Btk2—99 to 150 centimeters (39.0 to 59.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 7/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 8 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 25 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 13N03196. patchy - phpvsfiid 1112603; patchy - phpvsfiid 1112603