IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nuvalde
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S71TX307001
  • User Pedon ID: S71TX307001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4601
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40753
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 31.1956692
  • Std. Longitude: -99.2241058
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.3 miles southwest of Rochelle via U.S. Highway 190; 0.9 mile south on county road; 0.1 mile west and 150 yards south in field
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX307—McCulloch
  • MLRA: 81B—Edwards Plateau, Central Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX307—McCulloch County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31099-B2—Rochelle, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 1974 Manuscript
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nuvalde (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 12/30/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nuvalde
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace, alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/2011 (entry creation 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

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—33

    33—53

    53—213

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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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky; 5.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A35062
    A—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; 5.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A35063
    Bw—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35064
    Bk1—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent carbonate coats; 2 percent fine carbonate masses and 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses and 1 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35065
    Bk2—81 to 160 centimeters (31.9 to 63.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky; 1 percent fine pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses and 20 percent fine to coarse weakly coherent cemented pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry, carbonate concretions and 10 percent fine to coarse strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A35066, 40A35067
    BCk—160 to 213 centimeters (63.0 to 83.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky; 1 percent fine strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions and fine carbonate masses and medium weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 40A35068