IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pitzer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10TX4419006
  • User Pedon ID: S10TX4419006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N8863
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47534
  • 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: 32.4092484
  • Std. Longitude: -99.8802795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a road cut 0.9 miles west of intersection of fm road 707 and CR 310. 3.2 miles south of intersection ofbinterstate 20 an fm 707.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX441—Taylor
  • MLRA: 78C—Central Rolling Red Plains, Eastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX441—Taylor County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32099-D8—Merkel East, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Patton and Aron Sattler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, thermic Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pitzer
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, thermic Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 26 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately cemented slight weathered sandstone, calcareous with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R078CY113TX VERY SHALLOW 23-30" PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 22
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    moderately coherent

    26 - 200

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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

    5

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    564

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    0

    584

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    225

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    A—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bkkm1—26 to 87 centimeters (10.2 to 34.3 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/3); massive; carbonates present; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bkkm2—87 to 200 centimeters (34.3 to 78.7 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3); massive; carbonates present; fragments.