Acove soil and landscape

Profile of Acove soil and pastureland in an area of Acove-Menard complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes. These soils are moderately deep and well drained with a loamy surface layer and clayey subsoil. There is a characteristic stone line within the profile at approximately 40 to 60 cm. (Soil Survey of Mason County, Texas by Julia A. McCormick, Natural Resources Conservation Service}

 

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Setting

Major land resource area: MLRA 82A—Texas Central Basin

Landscape: Dissected plateaus

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Elevation: 1,000 to 2,945 feet

Mean annual precipitation: 22 to 34 inches

Mean annual air temperature: 64 to 70 degrees F

Frost-free period: 210 to 260 days

Map unit prime farmland class: Not prime farmland

 

Composition

Acove and similar soils: 56 percent

Menard and similar soils: 30 percent

Minor components and similar soils: 14 percent

The composition of this map unit is based on cumulative field observations and descriptions from three transects with thirty observations of the map unit.

 

Landforms: Ridges

Geomorphic positions, two-dimensional: Shoulder, summit

Geomorphic positions, three-dimensional: Interfluve

Down-slope shape: Convex

Across-slope shape: Linear

Parent material: Residuum weathered from sandstone

 

Typical Profile

Surface layer:

0 to 6 inches; moderately acid sandy loam

Subsurface layer:

6 to 13 inches; moderately acid sandy loam

Subsoil layer:

13 to 19 inches; slightly acid sandy clay loam

19 to 26 inches; slightly acid very flaggy clay

26 to 35 inches; slightly acid clay

35 to 59 inches; moderately cemented sandstone bedrock

 

Properties and Qualities

Slope: 0 to 5 percent

Percent of area covered by surface fragments: Not assigned

Depth to first restrictive layer: 24 to 40 inches paralithic bedrock

Slowest soil permeability to 60 inches, above first cemented restrictive layer: 0.2 to 0.6 in/hr (moderately slow)

Slowest permeability to 60 inches, within and below first cemented restrictive layer: 0.6 to 2.0 in/hr (moderate)

Salinity, representative within 40 inches: Not saline

Salinity, maximum within 40 inches: Not saline

Sodicity, representative within 40 inches: Not sodic

Sodicity, maximum within 40 inches: Not sodic

Representative total available water capacity to 60 inches: About 4.6 inches (low)

Natural drainage class: Well drained

Runoff: Low

Flooding frequency: Not flooded

 

Interpretive Groups

Land capability nonirrigated: 3e

Land capability irrigated: None specified

Ecological site name: Sandy Loam 25-32" PZ

Ecological site number: R082AY373TX

Typical vegetation: Little bluestem, other perennial grasses, pinhole bluestem, sideoats grama, Canada wildrye, other annual forbs, other perennial forbs, plains bristlegrass, purpletop tridens, sand lovegrass, yellow Indiangrass, other trees, other shrubs

 

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