IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zita
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX079004
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX079004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12TX079004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7775
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55261
  • 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: 33.7799568
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6580963
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX079—Cochran
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33102-G6—County Line, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 77 Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zita
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/26/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zita
  • Classificaton Date - 12/9/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Blackwater Draw formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/9/2011 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ERAGR

    Eragrostis

    lovegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—38

    16—38

    38—203

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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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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.
    Bw—16 to 38 centimeters (6.3 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    Bk1—38 to 72 centimeters (15.0 to 28.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 11 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 2 percent medium irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix and 3 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.
    Bk2—72 to 119 centimeters (28.3 to 46.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 25 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix and 15 percent medium irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bkk1—119 to 150 centimeters (46.9 to 59.1 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 20 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix and 35 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent medium irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bkk2—150 to 203 centimeters (59.1 to 79.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/3), pink (7.5YR 7/3), moist; very gravelly clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 5 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix and 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 76-95-125 millimeter carbonate nodules fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter carbonate nodules fragments; 10 to 25 percent krotovinas (volume percent); violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.