IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Midessa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012TX501006
  • User Pedon ID: S2012TX501006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S12TX501006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7781
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55267
  • 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: 33.2849045
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6121292
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX501—Yoakum
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33102-C5—Plains 1 SE, Texas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 77 Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Midessa
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Midessa
  • Classificaton Date - 12/7/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous 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: 12/7/2011 (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

    ACGR

    BOLAT

    ERAGR

    ULMUS

    Acacia greggii

    Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana

    Eragrostis

    Ulmus

    catclaw acacia

    silver beardgrass

    lovegrass

    elm

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—203

    67—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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent very fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bk1—25 to 67 centimeters (9.8 to 26.4 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent medium irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bk2—67 to 101 centimeters (26.4 to 39.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 4 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; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bk3—101 to 167 centimeters (39.8 to 65.7 inches); pink (5YR 7/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 5 percent fine irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix and 2 percent medium irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.
    3Bkk—167 to 203 centimeters (65.7 to 79.9 inches); pink (5YR 8/3), pink (5YR 7/3), moist; cobbly sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 15 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-?-76 millimeter petrocalcic fragments fragments and 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-10 millimeter carbonate nodules fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.