IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Talpa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX3999004
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX3999004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX3999004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8867
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47538
  • 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: 31.6345062
  • Std. Longitude: -99.7723465
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX399—Runnels
  • MLRA: 78A—Rolling Limestone Prairie
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31099-F7—Buffalo Bluff, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Bragg, C. Patton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Talpa
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, active, thermic Lithic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/2010
  • 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: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 28cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/2010 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARIST

    BUDA

    JUCO11

    OPUNT

    PRGL2

    STCOC2

    Aristida

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Juniperus coahuilensis

    Opuntia

    Prosopis glandulosa

    Stipa comata var. comata

    threeawn

    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

    28 - 53

    - 25 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—28

    18—28

    28—53

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    —10—

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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

    1

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    521

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    90

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; 25 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 medium moderate-continuity irregular and 4.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout and 5 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small