IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011TX279012
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX279012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX279012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N1630
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 77105
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 33.9650269
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3626938
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX279—Lamb
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Craig Byrd
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • PSC - 16 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Blackwater Draw Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - SS-6

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/24/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    PRGLT

    SPORO

    YUCCA

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

    Sporobolus

    Yucca

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    western honey mesquite

    dropseed

    yucca

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—16

    16—50

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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

    0.5

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    A2—2 to 16 centimeters (0.8 to 6.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—16 to 32 centimeters (6.3 to 12.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 8 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 798523; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 798523
    Bt2—32 to 50 centimeters (12.6 to 19.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; medium toughness; moderate excavation difficulty; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 798524; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 798524