IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vernon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S81-TX169-003
  • User Pedon ID: MLRA78-Vernon-TX169-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0470
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49314
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 33.1291656
  • Std. Longitude: -101.1666641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 13 km SE from intersection of US Hwy 84 and 380 in Post then 8.9 km N and E on private. ranch Rd. 2.4 km E in rangeland
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX169—Garza

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wilding Allen Lynn Hallmark Drees Williams Holland
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vernon
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Typic Ustochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
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    1A 1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, dry; clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02705. Common calcium carbonate concretions and quartzite pebbles with calcium carbonate coatings to 1 cm in diameter. Common shaley redbed pebbles on surface.; common very fine roots
    1B 2ca—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak fine blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02706. Few fine flecks of gray 5YR 6/1 material. Few calcium carbonate concretions to 1 cm in diameter. Few calcaium carbonate coated quartzite pebbles. About 15 percent kof mass is calcium carbonate.; few worm casts concentrations
    1B 3—25 to 52 centimeters (9.8 to 20.5 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dry; clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; gibbsite coats on faces of peds; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02707. Few fine flecks of gray 5YR 6/1 material. This horizon thins to about 10 cm on the left side.; few very fine and fine soft masses of lime concentrations
    1C r—52 to 68 centimeters (20.5 to 26.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dry; shaly clay; massive, and structureless very fine and fine blocky; extremely hard, extremely firm*, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02708. Few splotches of gray 5YR 6/1 material. Few films and threads of calcium carbonate along fracture planes. Calcareous in matrix.; few very fine gypsum crystals concentrations
    1C r2—68 to 125 centimeters (26.8 to 49.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, dry; shaly clay; massive, and weak fine blocky, and weak medium and coarse subangular blocky; extremely hard, extremely firm*, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02709. Masses of light gray 5Y 7/1 bodies that are about 10 cm thick and 35 cm long mostly in the lower part of the horizon. Gypsum crystals from 0.55 tp 2 cm in diameter.; few to common very fine and fine gypsum crystals concentrations
    1C r3—125 to 200 centimeters (49.2 to 78.7 inches);, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior, dry; shaly clay; massive, and structureless very fine and fine angular blocky; extremely hard, extremely firm*; fragments. Lab sample # 81P02710. Angular wedge shaped peds. Few continous vertical fractures. Few bodies of light gray 5Y 7/1 shale.