IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amarillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX445001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX445001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12TX445001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7899
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70795
  • 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: 33.0589485
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4064560
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX445—Terry
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TX445—Terry 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 - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/26/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amarillo
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/2012
  • 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: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Blackwater Draw Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • DSP Plot ID - CRP OCS

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/22/2012 (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

    ANDRO2

    BOTR2

    ERCU2

    ERTR3

    MUAR2

    PRGLT

    SPCO

    SPCR

    ULMUS

    YUCCA

    Andropogon

    Bouteloua trifida

    Eragrostis curvula

    Eragrostis trichodes

    Muhlenbergia arenicola

    Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

    Sphaeralcea coccinea

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Ulmus

    Yucca

    bluestem

    red grama

    weeping lovegrass

    sand lovegrass

    sand muhly

    western honey mesquite

    scarlet globemallow

    sand dropseed

    elm

    yucca

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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—25

    25—203

    130—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

    0.6

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    1010

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Ap2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 medium roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Ap3—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—25 to 60 centimeters (9.8 to 23.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821387; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821387
    Bt2—60 to 96 centimeters (23.6 to 37.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct ferromagnesian minerals between peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821388; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821388
    Btk—96 to 130 centimeters (37.8 to 51.2 inches); light red (2.5YR 6/8), red (2.5YR 5/8), moist; sandy clay loam; 23 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 4.0 fine roots throughout; and 25 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent carbonate masses lining pores and 3 percent medium distinct ferromagnesian minerals between peds; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821389; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821389
    Btkk1—130 to 177 centimeters (51.2 to 69.7 inches); light reddish brown (2.5YR 7/4), light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 30 percent medium carbonate masses throughout and 12 percent medium carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. patchy - phpvsfiid 821391; patchy - phpvsfiid 821391
    Btkk2—177 to 203 centimeters (69.7 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 20 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 30 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 10 percent medium irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821392; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821392