IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX017008
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX017008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1207
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37557
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 33.9084194
  • Std. Longitude: -102.7016611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX017—Bailey
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX017—Bailey County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Seth Sowder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - CRP-4

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/2010 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—24

    24—50

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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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    180

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    Ap1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; medium roots and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—2 to 24 centimeters (0.8 to 9.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; slightly hard, very friable; fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—24 to 39 centimeters (9.4 to 15.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; moderately hard, friable; fine roots; 34 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 530705; continuous - phpvsfiid 530705
    Bt2—39 to 50 centimeters (15.4 to 19.7 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; moderately hard, friable; fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 530706; continuous - phpvsfiid 530706