IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX445003
  • User Pedon ID: S12TX445003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12TX445003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7901
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71051
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 33.0589981
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4065018
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX445—Terry
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX445—Terry County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33102-G5—Pep, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alain Basurco
  • 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 - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Classificaton Date - 3/23/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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 - CRP OCS

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/23/2012 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANDRO2

    BOTR2

    ERCU2

    ERTR3

    MUAR2

    PRGLT

    SPCO

    SPCR

    ULMUS

    YUCCA

    Andropogon

    Bouteloua trifida

    Eragrostis curvula

    Eragrostis trichodes

    Muhlenbergia arenicola

    Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

    Sphaeralcea coccinea

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Ulmus

    Yucca

    bluestem

    red grama

    weeping lovegrass

    sand lovegrass

    sand muhly

    western honey mesquite

    scarlet globemallow

    sand dropseed

    elm

    yucca

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

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    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

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    0—23

    23—60

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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

    0.6

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    1010

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Ap2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 medium roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Ap3—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 17 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt—23 to 60 centimeters (9.1 to 23.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821394; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821394