IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harpersville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S99TX049001
  • User Pedon ID: S99TX049001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S99TX049001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S99TX049001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87532
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 31.6240387
  • Std. Longitude: -98.9065704
  • Datum: WGS84

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wayne Gabriel, Tom Cyprian, Sidney Paulson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, active, calcareous, thermic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Harpersville
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harperville
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: noncoherent slight weathered claystone at 23cm with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 10.00 percent flat angular strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 20.00 percent flat angular strongly coherent cemented 600- to 1200-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 25.00 percent flat angular strongly coherent cemented 75- to 250-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 45
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARPUW

    BOCU

    DIVI5

    NOMI

    OPUNT

    PRGL2

    UNKNOWN

    Aristida purpurea var. wrightii

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Diospyros virginiana

    Nolina microcarpa

    Opuntia

    Prosopis glandulosa

    unknown scientific name

    Wright's threeawn

    sideoats grama

    common persimmon

    sacahuista

    pricklypear

    honey mesquite

    unknown national vernacular name

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    23 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    densic materials

    0—23

    23—152

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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

    24

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    180

    26

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    225

    18

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); 90 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, 90 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; very gravelly clay loam; 10 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) medium distinct irregular and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) medium distinct irregular mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium moderate-continuity vesicular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity vesicular pores; 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU6413; observed in cut
    Cd—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); 60 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and 40 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, 60 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and 40 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; hard, very firm, noncoherent; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity irregular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU6414; observed in cut
    Cr—41 to 152 centimeters (16.1 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; noncoherent; high excavation difficulty; 1.0 medium roots in cracks and 1.0 coarse roots in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU6415; observed in cut