IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caid
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11TX3111018
  • User Pedon ID: S11TX3111018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11TX3111018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N1322
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58629
  • 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: 28.4899940
  • Std. Longitude: -98.7439651
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX311—McMullen
  • MLRA: 83A—Northern Rio Grande Plain
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 28098-D6—Rockaway Creek, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clark Harshbarger and Gary Harris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, hyperthermic Calcidic Paleustolls
  • 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 - Caid
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Caid
  • Classificaton Date - 3/9/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous fine-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: Inland dissected coastal plain
  • Landform: remnant paleoterrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Quaternary Terrace 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    OPUNT

    PAHA

    Opuntia

    Panicum hallii

    pricklypear

    Hall's panicgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    argillic horizon

    salt accumulations

    0—33

    33—203

    33—203

    53—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

    1

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    96

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); 75 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2), 75 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.
    AB—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 4 percent faint organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Btk—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    Btkz1—53 to 85 centimeters (20.9 to 33.5 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent medium salt masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    Btkz2—85 to 119 centimeters (33.5 to 46.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent fine irregular salt masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btkz3—119 to 168 centimeters (46.9 to 66.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine irregular salt masses throughout and 7 percent medium threadlike carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.
    Btkz4—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 45 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine salt masses throughout and 10 percent medium spherical carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.