IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX079015
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX079015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX079015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0709
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25096
  • 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: 33.6911278
  • Std. Longitude: -102.7919778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX079—Cochran
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX079—Cochran County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gerald Crenwelge
  • 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 - 12/16/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Blackwater Draw formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - Crop-1

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R077CY036TX Sandy Loam 16-21" PZ Apr 19 2022

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/16/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GOSSY

    Gossypium

    cotton

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—31

    31—155

    79—155

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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

    0.3

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    1167.1

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    200

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; single grain; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    A2—2 to 10 centimeters (0.8 to 3.9 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    A3—10 to 31 centimeters (3.9 to 12.2 inches);, yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; 14 percent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—31 to 40 centimeters (12.2 to 15.7 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt2—40 to 79 centimeters (15.7 to 31.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    Btk—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Btkk—104 to 117 centimeters (40.9 to 46.1 inches); pink (5YR 8/3), pink (5YR 8/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Btk—117 to 155 centimeters (46.1 to 61.0 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 7/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments.