IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Acuff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12TX303001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX303001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12TX303001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N2366
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73133
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 33.7631950
  • Std. Longitude: -101.5837250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • County: TX303—Lubbock

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Craig Byrd
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Acuff
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pullman
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Residue Description - wheat stubble
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits
  • Landform: plain on plateau
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Blackwater Draw Formation 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
    R077CY022TX Deep Hardland 16-21" PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/2012 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    COAR4

    SALSO

    SOBIB

    Convolvulus arvensis

    Salsola

    Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor

    field bindweed

    Russian thistle

    grain sorghum

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—36

    15—111

    62—111

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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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    977

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03197; observed in push tube
    Bt1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03198. continuous - phpvsfiid 1112607; continuous - phpvsfiid 1112607
    Bt2—36 to 62 centimeters (14.2 to 24.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03199. continuous - phpvsfiid 1112606; continuous - phpvsfiid 1112606
    Btk1—62 to 90 centimeters (24.4 to 35.4 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) broken face, red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03200. continuous - phpvsfiid 1112605; continuous - phpvsfiid 1112605
    Btk2—90 to 111 centimeters (35.4 to 43.7 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) broken face, red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores and 5 percent medium irregular carbonate masses between peds; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 13N03201. continuous - phpvsfiid 1112604; continuous - phpvsfiid 1112604