IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX219001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX219001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12TX219001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7895
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72875
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 33.7729797
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5326309
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX219—Hockley
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX219—Hockley County, Texas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33102-G5—Pep, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Craig Byrd & Alan Stahnke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • PSC - 24 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/20/2012 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—24

    24—129

    129—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

    0.8

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    1112

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Ap2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 medium roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Ap3—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—24 to 67 centimeters (9.4 to 26.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 821376; continuous - phpvsfiid 821376
    Bt2—67 to 99 centimeters (26.4 to 39.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 821377; continuous - phpvsfiid 821377
    Bt3—99 to 129 centimeters (39.0 to 50.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821378; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821378
    Bkk—129 to 163 centimeters (50.8 to 64.2 inches); light reddish brown (2.5YR 7/4), light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; ; 20 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 25 percent medium carbonate masses throughout and 20 percent medium carbonate nodules throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated ? to 100-? millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Btkk—163 to 203 centimeters (64.2 to 79.9 inches); light red (2.5YR 6/6), red (2.5YR 5/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 20 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 20 percent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 5 percent irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence. patchy - phpvsfiid 821380; patchy - phpvsfiid 821380