IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duval
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979TX163001
  • User Pedon ID: 79TX163001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0329
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47062
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024
  • 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: 28.7208328
  • Std. Longitude: -99.1569443
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.1 km W on FR 140 from US 81 in Pearsal 22.9 km S on HI 35 1.6 km N on access rd 92 meters W on farm trail 38 meters S
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX163—Frio
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jack W. Stevens, Micheal L. Golden
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, hyperthermic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duval (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/19/2014
  • Classifier - Gary Harris
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duval
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, hyperthermic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—41

    41—132

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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

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; few (0.5) fine roots; few (0.7) fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01714; moist when described;
    A—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; few (0.7) fine roots; few (0.7) fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01715; dry when described;
    Bt1—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; few (0.7) fine roots; few (0.7) fine tubular pores; clay bridges between sand grains and 3 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium cylindrical insect casts; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01716; dry when described;
    Bt2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; few (0.7) fine roots; few (0.7) fine tubular pores; clay bridges between sand grains and 3 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium cylindrical insect casts; 2 percent by volume 2-10-13 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-3-6 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01717; dry when described;
    Bt3—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; very few (0.1) very fine roots; few (0.7) fine tubular pores; clay bridges between sand grains and 3 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; and 1 percent fine and medium cylindrical insect casts; 2 percent by volume 2-3-6 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-8-13 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01718; dry when described;
    Btk—112 to 132 centimeters (44.1 to 52.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; very few (0.1) very fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; 1 percent carbonate masses and 1 percent carbonate nodules; 2 percent by volume 2-3-13 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments and 7 percent by volume , 10 percent by weight angular 2-8-25 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01719; dry when described;
    2Crk—132 to 183 centimeters (52.0 to 72.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1), light gray (10YR 7/1), moist; weathered bedrock; 2 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine and medium distinct and 2 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct and 2 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) fine and medium distinct and 2 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; weakly cemented by iron; 3 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # 79P01720; dry when described;