IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valera
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987TX435001
  • User Pedon ID: 87TX435001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0126
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60249
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 30.2900009
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5405579
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sutton County, TX; Sonora 12.8 mi S on US HWY 277; 13.8 mi SE on Cusenbary Rd; 200 feet W of Rd. 500 feet W of County Line.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX435—Sutton
  • MLRA: 81B—Edwards Plateau, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Brockmann and W. Gabriel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Typic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valera
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Perves
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: bolson
  • Landform: mesa or butte
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    8

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    650

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    90

    55

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    20

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    1A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00667. Coarse fragments 5-15 mm across.; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1A2—6 to 32 centimeters (2.4 to 12.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00668. Coarse fragments 5-10 mm across.; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bw—32 to 50 centimeters (12.6 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 17 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00669. Coarse fragments 5-15 mm across.; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bk1—50 to 60 centimeters (19.7 to 23.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 11 percent coarse spherical carbonate masses; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 88P00670. Coarse fragments 5-75 mm across.; common coarse soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bk2—60 to 79 centimeters (23.6 to 31.1 inches); 50 percent pink (5YR 8/3) interior and 50 percent pink (5YR 7/4) interior, pink (5YR 7/3) interior and light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, moist; very gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 11 percent coarse spherical carbonate masses; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00671. Coarse fragments consist of about 30% quartz and 20% cobbles.; common coarse soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    1R—79 to 80 centimeters (31.1 to 31.5 inches); fragments.