IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Portales
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995TX305002
  • User Pedon ID: S1995TX305002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0859
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67866
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 33.1294441
  • Std. Longitude: -101.8486099
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX305—Lynn
  • MLRA: 77—Southern High Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX305—Lynn County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Wysocki, S. Abells, R. Hill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Portales
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Calciustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/1995
  • Classifier - Portales
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—76

    274—543

    —-

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    ustic moisture
    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; few (0.5) fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 95P05449
    B—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; few (0.5) fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 95P05450
    B1—46 to 80 centimeters (18.1 to 31.5 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; moderate prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; few (0.5) fine vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 95P05451
    B2—80 to 103 centimeters (31.5 to 40.6 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; few (0.5) very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 35 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 95P05452
    B4—108 to 214 centimeters (42.5 to 84.3 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; clay loam; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 95P05453