IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cienega
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008-TX109-022
  • User Pedon ID: S2008-TX109-022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08-TX109-022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S08TX109022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45588
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 31.2280769
  • Std. Longitude: -104.4450378
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX109—Culberson
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-MAF—Marfa, Texas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX626—Culberson County, Main Part, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Hallmark, Jim Clausen, James Gordon, Tyson Morley, Deanna Faubion, and Riley Dayberry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, thermic Ustic Petrocalcids
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cienega
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2018
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cienega-like
  • Classificaton Date - 1/8/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly alluvium derived from limestone, unspecified
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 66.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/8/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATHY

    GUSA2

    PAIN2

    PLMU3

    PRGLT

    FLCE

    OPENE

    AGLE

    Atriplex hymenelytra

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Parthenium incanum

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

    Flourensia cernua

    Opuntia engelmannii var. engelmannii

    Agave lechuguilla

    desertholly

    broom snakeweed

    mariola

    tobosagrass

    western honey mesquite

    American tarwort

    cactus apple

    lechuguilla

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    very strongly coherent

    144 - 175

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—15

    15—144

    105—144

    144—175

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    —39—

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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

    5

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    1345

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; very gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 22 percent prominent carbonate coats on rock fragments; 22 percent fine prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7303. continuous - phpvsfiid 386325; continuous - phpvsfiid 386325
    Bk1—15 to 69 centimeters (5.9 to 27.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very cobbly loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 22 percent prominent carbonate coats on rock fragments; 22 percent fine prominent weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries around rock fragments; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 48 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7304. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 386326; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 386326
    Bk2—69 to 105 centimeters (27.2 to 41.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 33 percent fine prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries around rock fragments and 15 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate, finely disseminated with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 80 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7305
    2Btkb—105 to 144 centimeters (41.3 to 56.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 20 percent fine distinct threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries on vertical faces of peds; 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU7306
    2Bkkmb—144 to 175 centimeters (56.7 to 68.9 inches); white (10YR 8/1) broken face, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, moist; cemented material; structureless massive; carbonates present; 16 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # TAMU7307