IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Talpa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX3999002
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX3999002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX3999002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8865
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47536
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 31.6009445
  • Std. Longitude: -99.7647858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX399—Runnels
  • MLRA: 78A—Rolling Limestone Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31099-E7—Concho, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Bragg, C. Patton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Talpa
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Calciustepts
  • PSC - 0 to 27 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium derived from limestone over loamy residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 27cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/24/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARIST

    BOLAT

    BUDA

    JUCO11

    OPUNT

    PRGL2

    STCOC2

    YUCCA

    Aristida

    Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Juniperus coahuilensis

    Opuntia

    Prosopis glandulosa

    Stipa comata var. comata

    Yucca

    threeawn

    silver beardgrass

    buffalograss

    redberry juniper

    pricklypear

    honey mesquite

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    27 - 52

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—27

    27—53

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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

    4

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; paragravelly loam; 37 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 medium roots between peds and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots between peds; 1.0 medium moderate-continuity irregular and 2.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 16 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-17-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk—13 to 27 centimeters (5.1 to 10.6 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very parachannery loam; 38 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity pores; 10 percent fine prominent irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions with sharp boundaries around rock fragments; 55 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-40-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—27 to 52 centimeters (10.6 to 20.5 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small