IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX305008
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX305008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1232
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37543
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 33.3396278
  • Std. Longitude: -101.7934972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX305—Lynn
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX305—Lynn 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 - 6/24/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - CRP-5

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/2010 (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—21

    21—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

    0.5

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    Ap1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—2 to 21 centimeters (0.8 to 8.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; medium roots and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btk—21 to 50 centimeters (8.3 to 19.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; moderately hard, friable; fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; and 4 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 3 percent coarse weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix and 4 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 530714; continuous - phpvsfiid 530714