IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Noelke
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S81TX105001
  • User Pedon ID: S81TX105001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S81TX105001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45670
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 30.5177784
  • Std. Longitude: -101.4541702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Austin Millspaugh Ranch, enter through Pie Pierce Ranch on mesa top, between north and northwest shooting fingers of the southwest portion of mesa between Howard's Creek and Government Canyon, 4 miles north-northeast of RT 2083 and unpaved road at Howard's Creek.
  • Map Unit: NoD—Noelke-Ector complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX105—Crockett
  • MLRA: 81B—Edwards Plateau, Central Part
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX105—Crockett County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MRabenhorst,LWilding,C.Girdner,C.Wiedenfeld
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Noelke
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Noelke variant
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: limestone
  • Landform: mesa
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Buda member of the Edwards Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/1981 (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

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    24 - 55

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

    mollic epipedon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—12

    12—55

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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

    0.5

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    730

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    180

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly silt loam; weak thin platy, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard; 8.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1208
    A2—2 to 12 centimeters (0.8 to 4.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to granular structure; hard; 8.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1209
    A/Bkm—12 to 24 centimeters (4.7 to 9.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1210
    Bkm1—24 to 45 centimeters (9.4 to 17.7 inches); white (10YR 8/1), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist; material; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1211
    Bkm2—45 to 55 centimeters (17.7 to 21.7 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) material; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1212