IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sagerton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S08-TX441-3217
  • User Pedon ID: S08TX441101
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08-TX441-3217
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S08TX441101
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45594
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 32.3395844
  • Std. Longitude: -100.0480423
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX441—Taylor County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 78 Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sagerton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 35 to 85 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/12/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from limestone
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/12/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other shrub cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    OPLE

    OPUNT

    PRGL2

    SPORO

    THUJA

    ZIOB

    Opuntia leptocaulis

    Opuntia

    Prosopis glandulosa

    Sporobolus

    Thuja

    Ziziphus obtusifolia

    Christmas cactus

    pricklypear

    honey mesquite

    dropseed

    arborvitae

    lotebush

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—35

    35—155

    35—155

    —25—

    —120—

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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

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    A—0 to 35 centimeters (0.0 to 13.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7348
    Btk1—35 to 88 centimeters (13.8 to 34.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; 45 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-8-15 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7349. patchy - phpvsfiid 440729; patchy - phpvsfiid 440729
    Btk2—88 to 155 centimeters (34.6 to 61.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7351. patchy - phpvsfiid 440730; patchy - phpvsfiid 440730
    BC—155 to 266 centimeters (61.0 to 104.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay; 43 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; 5 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7353
    C1—266 to 316 centimeters (104.7 to 124.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; clay; 41 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7356
    C2—316 to 363 centimeters (124.4 to 142.9 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 40 percent pink (7.5YR 7/3), 60 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and 40 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/3), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; 40 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/3) medium distinct irregular and 40 percent pink (7.5YR 7/3) medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # TAMU7358