IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010TX305011
  • User Pedon ID: S2010TX305011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10TX305011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1225
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37536
  • 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: 33.2633111
  • Std. Longitude: -101.9000111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX305—Lynn
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX305—Lynn County, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Craig Byrd
  • 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 - 6/9/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian (Blackwater Draw)
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - SS-3

    • 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

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    ARIST

    BUDA

    YUCCA

    Aristida

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Yucca

    threeawn

    buffalograss

    yucca

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—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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    981.8

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    270

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—2 to 15 centimeters (0.8 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; medium roots and fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—15 to 50 centimeters (5.9 to 19.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm; medium roots and fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 530719; continuous - phpvsfiid 530719