Inari soil and landscape
Soil profile: Inari fine sandy loam. Inari soils have dark surfaces or mollic epipedons, and occur as ridges in the Gulf Coast Prairies. (Soil Survey of Goliad County, Texas; by Jonathan K. Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape: Prairie vegetation on an area of Inari fine sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes. Inari soils are in the Loamy Prairie ecological site.
The Inari series consists of very deep, moderately well drained, slowly permeable soils that formed in loamy fluviomarine deposits of Early Pleistocene age. These nearly level to very gently sloping soils are on rises on flat coastal plains. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 21.1 degrees C (70 degrees F) and mean annual precipitation is about 864 mm (34 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Oxyaquic Argiustolls
Soil Moisture: An ustic soil moisture regime. The soil moisture control section is 10 to 30 cm (4 to 12 in). These soils remain dry in the soil moisture control section for more than 90 cumulative days. The dry period occurs during the late winter and early spring months. These soils are moist during the late summer and fall months.
Mean annual soil temperature: 22.2 to 23.4 degrees C (72 to 74 degrees F)
Depth to argillic horizon: 13 to 58 cm (5 to 23 in)
Depth to secondary calcium carbonate: 41 to 132 cm (16 to 52 in)
Depth to redox concentrations: 13 to 58 cm (5 to 23 in)
Thickness of the mollic epipedon: 23 to 58 cm (9 to 23 in)
Particle-size control section:
Clay content: 30 to 35 percent
CEC/clay ratio: 0.60 to 0.75
USE AND VEGETATION: Used mostly for livestock grazing. Native vegetation includes grasses such as little bluestem, silver bluestem, indiangrass, brownseed paspalum and balsamscale. A few scattered trees include mesquite, huisache or live oak. (Ecological site name: Loamy Prairie 28-40" PZ; Ecological site number: R150AY535TX)
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Gulf Coast Prairies (MLRA 150A) of South Texas from the tributaries of the San Antonio River to the Mission River; Land Resource Region T-Atlantic and Gulf Coast Lowland Forest and Crop Region; the series is of small extent. This soil was formerly included in the Faddin series. The Faddin series is typically mapped on the clayey Beaumont Formation and is in an udic moisture regime.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/goliadTX...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/I/INARI.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#inari
Inari soil and landscape
Soil profile: Inari fine sandy loam. Inari soils have dark surfaces or mollic epipedons, and occur as ridges in the Gulf Coast Prairies. (Soil Survey of Goliad County, Texas; by Jonathan K. Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape: Prairie vegetation on an area of Inari fine sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes. Inari soils are in the Loamy Prairie ecological site.
The Inari series consists of very deep, moderately well drained, slowly permeable soils that formed in loamy fluviomarine deposits of Early Pleistocene age. These nearly level to very gently sloping soils are on rises on flat coastal plains. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 21.1 degrees C (70 degrees F) and mean annual precipitation is about 864 mm (34 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Oxyaquic Argiustolls
Soil Moisture: An ustic soil moisture regime. The soil moisture control section is 10 to 30 cm (4 to 12 in). These soils remain dry in the soil moisture control section for more than 90 cumulative days. The dry period occurs during the late winter and early spring months. These soils are moist during the late summer and fall months.
Mean annual soil temperature: 22.2 to 23.4 degrees C (72 to 74 degrees F)
Depth to argillic horizon: 13 to 58 cm (5 to 23 in)
Depth to secondary calcium carbonate: 41 to 132 cm (16 to 52 in)
Depth to redox concentrations: 13 to 58 cm (5 to 23 in)
Thickness of the mollic epipedon: 23 to 58 cm (9 to 23 in)
Particle-size control section:
Clay content: 30 to 35 percent
CEC/clay ratio: 0.60 to 0.75
USE AND VEGETATION: Used mostly for livestock grazing. Native vegetation includes grasses such as little bluestem, silver bluestem, indiangrass, brownseed paspalum and balsamscale. A few scattered trees include mesquite, huisache or live oak. (Ecological site name: Loamy Prairie 28-40" PZ; Ecological site number: R150AY535TX)
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Gulf Coast Prairies (MLRA 150A) of South Texas from the tributaries of the San Antonio River to the Mission River; Land Resource Region T-Atlantic and Gulf Coast Lowland Forest and Crop Region; the series is of small extent. This soil was formerly included in the Faddin series. The Faddin series is typically mapped on the clayey Beaumont Formation and is in an udic moisture regime.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/goliadTX...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/I/INARI.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#inari