IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cochina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX3111017
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX3111017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX3111017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N1321
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58628
  • 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: 28.4712143
  • Std. Longitude: -98.7525177
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX311—McMullen
  • MLRA: 83B—Western Rio Grande Plain
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 28098-D7—Fowlerton, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clark Harshbarger, Gary Harris, Joe Neal, Jim Akin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, active, hyperthermic Aridic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cochina
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/2012
  • Classifier - Gary Harris
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cochina
  • Classificaton Date - 3/9/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: Inland dissected coastal plain
  • Landform: flood-plain step
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods begining in aug
  • Geology: Fine Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/9/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    ACACI

    ALGR2

    COHO

    EUSID

    OPLE

    OPUNT

    PAHA

    PROSO

    Acacia

    Aloysia gratissima

    Condalia hookeri

    Eusideroxylon

    Opuntia leptocaulis

    Opuntia

    Panicum hallii

    Prosopis

    acacia

    whitebrush

    Brazilian bluewood

    ironwood

    Christmas cactus

    pricklypear

    Hall's panicgrass

    mesquite

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

    ochric epipedon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    0—13

    13—203

    88—203

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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

    0.2

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; 42 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 6.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bss1—13 to 44 centimeters (5.1 to 17.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; 48 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    Bss2—44 to 88 centimeters (17.3 to 34.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; 55 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4.0 very fine roots; slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bkss1—88 to 112 centimeters (34.6 to 44.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; 61 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine irregular very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bkss2—112 to 139 centimeters (44.1 to 54.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay; 62 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots; slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent medium irregular very weakly coherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and red (7.5R 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine irregular very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bkss3—139 to 162 centimeters (54.7 to 63.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay; 61 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent medium irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine irregular very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bkss4—162 to 203 centimeters (63.8 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay; 55 percent clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent irregular salt crystals in matrix and 2 percent irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence. patchy - phpvsfiid 629308; patchy - phpvsfiid 629308