IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX219006
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX219006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1209
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37559
  • 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: 33.6284806
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5159306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX219—Hockley
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX219—Hockley County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kelly Attebury
  • 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 - 6/8/2010
  • 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-3

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/2010 (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—33

    33—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

    0.1

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    1100.3

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; very fine roots throughout; very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A/Btp—2 to 33 centimeters (0.8 to 13.0 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; very fine roots throughout; very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in pit, small
    Btb—33 to 50 centimeters (13.0 to 19.7 inches);, very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong medium prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm; very fine roots throughout; very fine tubular pores; fragments; very slight effervescence.; observed in pit, small