IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S83TX099002
  • User Pedon ID: S83TX099002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - TAMU
  • Lab Pedon # - S83TX099002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82634
  • 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: 31.2599111
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8827917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: At the intersection of U.S. Highway 84 and Farm Road 116 in Gatesville, Texas: 22.2 km south on Farm Road 116 and 2.2 km east on Antelope Road into Fort Hood. Site is 140 m south of road in range.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX099—Coryell

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wilding, West, R. D.
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cho
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, carbonatic, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 0 to 32 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/2012
  • Classifier - A Stahnke
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: West, Wilding, Drees, Lane, McCales, Williamson
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    extremely weakly coherent

    —

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

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—8

    21—32

    32—43

    53—172

    107—172

    172—176

    172—176

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; 5.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 10 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1808
    Bkm/A2—8 to 21 centimeters (3.1 to 8.3 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist; loam; massive; hard, firm; 2.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent worm casts and 10 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules and medium spherical carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1809
    Bk—21 to 32 centimeters (8.3 to 12.6 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 10.0 fine roots; 20.0 fine pores; coarse spherical carbonate nodules and 5 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules and medium spherical carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1810
    Bkm—32 to 43 centimeters (12.6 to 16.9 inches);, pale yellow (2.5Y 8/4), moist; silt loam; weak fine massive; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/4) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine faint very pale brown (10YR 7/4) masses of oxidized iron; 60 percent weakly coherent cemented white (N 8/) carbonate masses and 3 percent indurated cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # TAMU1811
    B'k—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); silt loam; massive; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1812
    2Bk—53 to 89 centimeters (20.9 to 35.0 inches); silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1813
    2Cr1—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); silt loam; massive; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1814
    2Cr2—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1815
    2Cr3—130 to 172 centimeters (51.2 to 67.7 inches); silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1816
    3R—172 to 176 centimeters (67.7 to 69.3 inches); fragments. Lab sample # TAMU1817