IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Portales
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S13TX165001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013TX165001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0317
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79428
  • 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: 32.8049083
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2455472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX165—Gaines
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SSS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Portales
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Calciustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/29/2013
  • Classifier - T. Craig Byrd
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loamy lacustrine deposits of Quaternary age
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interdune
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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
    R077CY026TX High Lime 16-21" PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: SSS
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    calcic horizon

    0—19

    19—52

    52—78

    78—203

    —19—

    —33—

    —26—

    —125—
    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

    0.8

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    A—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01666; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—19 to 52 centimeters (7.5 to 20.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01667; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—52 to 78 centimeters (20.5 to 30.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 4 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 10 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01668; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—78 to 113 centimeters (30.7 to 44.5 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 6 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 12 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01669; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—113 to 149 centimeters (44.5 to 58.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 20 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01670; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk4—149 to 203 centimeters (58.7 to 79.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face, gray (10YR 6/1) broken face, moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 25 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 14N01671; very dry when described; observed in pit, small