IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crossroads
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX501002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX501002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12TX501002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7777
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55263
  • Print Date: 5/11/2025

    • 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: 33.2606392
  • Std. Longitude: -103.0051346
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX501—Yoakum
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX501—Yoakum County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33103-C1—Bronco, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 77 Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, subactive, thermic Petrocalcic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crossroads
  • PSC - 25 to 99 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/2018
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crossroads
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loamy eolian deposits over calcareous loamy lacustrine deposits over calcareous loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Ogallala formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter petrocalcic fragments,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/16/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ANDRO2

    SPCR

    YUCCA

    Andropogon

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Yucca

    bluestem

    sand dropseed

    yucca

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    99 - 203

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

    ochric epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    calcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—29

    10—99

    29—71

    29—99

    99—203

    99—203

    —29—

    —89—

    —42—

    —70—

    —104—

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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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    1154

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium spherical strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01766
    Ap2—10 to 29 centimeters (3.9 to 11.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine spherical strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix and 1 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01767
    2Bk1—29 to 49 centimeters (11.4 to 19.3 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 3 percent fine spherical strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix and 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N01768
    2Bk2—49 to 71 centimeters (19.3 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; 26 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 7 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses between peds and 3 percent medium irregular strongly coherent cemented gibbsite nodules in matrix and 1 percent medium shell fragments throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-2-40 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01769
    2Bk3—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 3 percent medium irregular strongly coherent cemented gibbsite nodules in matrix and 1 percent medium shell fragments throughout and 1 percent very fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses between peds and 1 percent very fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01770
    3Bkkm1—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); pale pinkish white (7.5YR 9/2), pale pinkish white (7.5YR 9/2), moist; cemented material; structureless massive; indurated by carbonates; 1.0 fine roots around fragments; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N01771
    3Bkkm2—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); white (7.5YR 9/1), white (7.5YR 9/1), moist; cemented material; structureless massive; indurated by carbonates; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N01772