IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Salco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: TX131-P1980-1657
  • User Pedon ID: S80TX131003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: TX131-P1980-1657
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S80TX131003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45746
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 27.9864330
  • Std. Longitude: -98.6384125
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the intersection of U.S. 16 & 59 in Freer, Texas. Go 7.8 miles north on U.S. 16 to locked gate, then 1.3 miles west on caliche road, then 0.3 mile north on caliche road to cattleguard, then 2.2 miles southwest along fence, then 50 feet southeast in rangeland.

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, hyperthermic Aridic argiustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Salco
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mula
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Calcareous loamy sediments.
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: .
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID - .
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PRGLT

    Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

    western honey mesquite

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—26

    26—69

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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

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    A—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.7 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; 1 percent shell fragments and 1 percent insect casts; fragments; noneffervescent; clear boundary. Lab sample # TAMU793
    Bt1—26 to 43 centimeters (10.2 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; faint clay films; 1 percent shell fragments and 1 percent threadlike carbonate, finely disseminated and 1 percent insect casts; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # TAMU794. patchy - phpvsfiid 406708; patchy - phpvsfiid 406708
    Bt2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.4 fine roots; 2.0 very fine and 2.0 fine pores; faint clay films; 1 percent carbonate concretions and 1 percent shell fragments; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # TAMU795. patchy - phpvsfiid 406709; patchy - phpvsfiid 406709
    Bk—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.2 fine roots; 2.0 very fine and 2.0 fine pores; 1 percent threadlike carbonate, finely disseminated and 1 percent shell fragments; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # TAMU796
    Ck—94 centimeters (37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; 1.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; 11 percent threadlike carbonate, finely disseminated and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # TAMU797. About 10-20% 10YR 4/3 dry, 3/3 moist scl material.