McKittrick soil series
Soil profile: A soil profile of McKittrick gravelly sandy loam, in an area of McKittrick-Riverwash complex, flooded, 0 to 3 percent slopes. This soil has a thick gravelly mollic epipedon over a very gravelly subsurface horizon. The parent material is alluvium from the surrounding hills and mountains. (Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; by Alan L. Stahnke, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The McKittrick series consists of very deep well drained soils that formed in gravelly alluvium. Slopes are 0 to 3 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 584 mm (23 in) and the mean annual temperature is about 12 degrees C (54 degrees F).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
Thickness of mollic epipedon: 21 to 45 cm (8 to 18 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average):
Clay Content: 14 to 29 percent
Rock fragment content: 35 to 80 percent total; 25 to 55 percent gravel; 10 to 50 percent cobbles
USE AND VEGETATION: This soil is used for wildlife habitat and recreation. Vegetation is little bluestem, yellow indiangrass, bull muhly, pinyon ricegrass, pine muhly, sedges, sotol, apache plume, bigtooth maple, chinkapin oak, velvet ash, madrone, hoptree, alligator juniper, ponderosa pine, and pinyon pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: LRR G; Western Great Plains Range and Irrigated Region; MLRA 70C-Central New Mexico Highlands. The soil is not extensive.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/M/MCKITTRICK.html
For a detailed soil description, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/guadalup...
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#mckittrick
McKittrick soil series
Soil profile: A soil profile of McKittrick gravelly sandy loam, in an area of McKittrick-Riverwash complex, flooded, 0 to 3 percent slopes. This soil has a thick gravelly mollic epipedon over a very gravelly subsurface horizon. The parent material is alluvium from the surrounding hills and mountains. (Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; by Alan L. Stahnke, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The McKittrick series consists of very deep well drained soils that formed in gravelly alluvium. Slopes are 0 to 3 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 584 mm (23 in) and the mean annual temperature is about 12 degrees C (54 degrees F).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
Thickness of mollic epipedon: 21 to 45 cm (8 to 18 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average):
Clay Content: 14 to 29 percent
Rock fragment content: 35 to 80 percent total; 25 to 55 percent gravel; 10 to 50 percent cobbles
USE AND VEGETATION: This soil is used for wildlife habitat and recreation. Vegetation is little bluestem, yellow indiangrass, bull muhly, pinyon ricegrass, pine muhly, sedges, sotol, apache plume, bigtooth maple, chinkapin oak, velvet ash, madrone, hoptree, alligator juniper, ponderosa pine, and pinyon pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: LRR G; Western Great Plains Range and Irrigated Region; MLRA 70C-Central New Mexico Highlands. The soil is not extensive.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/M/MCKITTRICK.html
For a detailed soil description, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/guadalup...
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#mckittrick