IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Slaughter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX501007
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX501007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12TX501007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7782
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55268
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 33.2367401
  • Std. Longitude: -102.8777008
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX501—Yoakum
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33102-B8—Plains NW, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 77 Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Slaughter
  • PSC - 17 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Slaughter
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey eolian deposits over loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Ogallala formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/8/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    PRGLT

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    western honey mesquite

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

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    42 - 100

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—42

    17—42

    42—100

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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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    A—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.3; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt—17 to 42 centimeters (6.7 to 16.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay; 41 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 821675; continuous - phpvsfiid 821675
    Bkkm—42 to 100 centimeters (16.5 to 39.4 inches); cemented material; structureless massive; carbonates present; 1.0 fine roots around fragments; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.