IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eckrant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S81TX171001
  • User Pedon ID: S81TX-171-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S81TX171001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45673
  • 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: 30.2850285
  • Std. Longitude: -99.0920258
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Roger Dittmar Ranch; approximately 13 miles west of Fredericksburg on Texas Highway 290; south onto Dittmar Ranch and follow road past residence, approximately 1 mile to hilltop, pedon sampled 100 feet east of road (Atlas Sheet 41, Gillespie County soil survey report)
  • Map Unit: TaC—Tarrant soils, 1 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX171—Gillespie
  • MLRA: 81B—Edwards Plateau, Central Part
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX171—Gillespie County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Rabenhorst,L. West, T. Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, thermic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eckrant
  • PSC - 8 to 20 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eckrant variant
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: limestone and dolomite
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 20cm
  • Geology: Fort Terret member of the Edwards Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments: nonflat subrounded indurated chert, flat angular indurated limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/19/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    20 - 43

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—43

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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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    630

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    250

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine granular, and very fine granular structure; very friable; 8.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1273
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; 8.0 fine roots; 80 percent by volume flat angular indurated 350-500-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1274
    R1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1275
    R2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches);, white (10YR 8/1), moist; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1276