Chilicotal soil and landscape
Soil profile: Chilicotal very gravelly fine sandy loam in an area of Chilicotal very gravelly fine sandy loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes. Rock fragments comprise more than 35 percent of the 10- to 40-inch control section.
Landscape: A healthy plant community, about one year after a prescribed fire, of black grama, Texas prickly pear, and skeletonleaf goldeneye occupy this area of Chilicotal very gravelly fine sandy loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes. Abundant summer precipitation following the fire allowed the vegetation to recover. Some mortality of pricklypear is evident in the foreground. Rock outcrop-Brewster complex, 20 to 70 percent slopes, is mapped on the Chisos Mountains in the background. (Cover of Soil Survey of Big Bend National Park, Texas; by James Gordon, Soil Scientist, James A. Douglass, Soil Scientist, and Dr. Lynn E. Loomis, Soil Scientist, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Chilicotal series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in loamy gravelly piedmont sediments from igneous mountains. These soils are on gently undulating to strongly rolling fan remnants and alluvial fans. Slopes range from 1 to 50 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Ustic Haplocalcids
USE AND VEGETATION: Livestock grazing and wildlife habitat. Grasses in most areas are mainly chino grama, slim tridens, black grama, and threeawns with woody vegetation of lechuguilla, creosotebush, skeletonleaf goldeneye, catclaw, sotol, yucca, and ceniza.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: West Texas in MLRA 42. The series is of moderate extent.
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Chilicotal soil and landscape
Soil profile: Chilicotal very gravelly fine sandy loam in an area of Chilicotal very gravelly fine sandy loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes. Rock fragments comprise more than 35 percent of the 10- to 40-inch control section.
Landscape: A healthy plant community, about one year after a prescribed fire, of black grama, Texas prickly pear, and skeletonleaf goldeneye occupy this area of Chilicotal very gravelly fine sandy loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes. Abundant summer precipitation following the fire allowed the vegetation to recover. Some mortality of pricklypear is evident in the foreground. Rock outcrop-Brewster complex, 20 to 70 percent slopes, is mapped on the Chisos Mountains in the background. (Cover of Soil Survey of Big Bend National Park, Texas; by James Gordon, Soil Scientist, James A. Douglass, Soil Scientist, and Dr. Lynn E. Loomis, Soil Scientist, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Chilicotal series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in loamy gravelly piedmont sediments from igneous mountains. These soils are on gently undulating to strongly rolling fan remnants and alluvial fans. Slopes range from 1 to 50 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Ustic Haplocalcids
USE AND VEGETATION: Livestock grazing and wildlife habitat. Grasses in most areas are mainly chino grama, slim tridens, black grama, and threeawns with woody vegetation of lechuguilla, creosotebush, skeletonleaf goldeneye, catclaw, sotol, yucca, and ceniza.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: West Texas in MLRA 42. The series is of moderate extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/bigbendT...
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CHILICOTAL.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: