Choza soil series
Soil profile: A soil profile of Choza very gravelly loam, in an area of Pinery, Choza, and Altuda soils, 5 to 60 percent slopes. This soil has a thin very gravelly mollic epipedon over a petrocalcic horizon. The parent material is fan alluvium from the mountains. (Soil Survey of Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; by Alan L. Stahnke, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Choza series consists of very shallow and shallow, well drained soils that formed in gravelly fan alluvium. Choza soils are on moderately sloping to moderately steep dissected alluvial fan remnants. Slopes are 5 to 35 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 16 degrees C (61 degrees F) and mean annual precipitation is about 411 mm (16 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
Thickness of mollic epipedon: 13 to 38 cm (5 to 15 in)
Depth to petrocalcic horizon: 13 to 38 cm (5 to 15 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average):
Clay Content: 12 to 32 percent
Rock fragment content: 35 to 70 percent total; 10 to 40 percent gravel; 5 to 40 percent cobbles
USE AND VEGETATION: This soil is used for livestock grazing, wildlife habitat and recreation. Vegetation is curlyleaf muhly, hairy grama, black grama, skunkbush sumac, sotol, pricklypear, redberry juniper, oaks, and pinyon pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: LRR G; Western Great Plains Range and Irrigated Region; MLRA 70D-Southern Desert Foothills in West Texas. The soil is not extensive. The series name is taken from a spring occurring in Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/guadalup...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CHOZA.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Choza soil series
Soil profile: A soil profile of Choza very gravelly loam, in an area of Pinery, Choza, and Altuda soils, 5 to 60 percent slopes. This soil has a thin very gravelly mollic epipedon over a petrocalcic horizon. The parent material is fan alluvium from the mountains. (Soil Survey of Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; by Alan L. Stahnke, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Choza series consists of very shallow and shallow, well drained soils that formed in gravelly fan alluvium. Choza soils are on moderately sloping to moderately steep dissected alluvial fan remnants. Slopes are 5 to 35 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 16 degrees C (61 degrees F) and mean annual precipitation is about 411 mm (16 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
Thickness of mollic epipedon: 13 to 38 cm (5 to 15 in)
Depth to petrocalcic horizon: 13 to 38 cm (5 to 15 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average):
Clay Content: 12 to 32 percent
Rock fragment content: 35 to 70 percent total; 10 to 40 percent gravel; 5 to 40 percent cobbles
USE AND VEGETATION: This soil is used for livestock grazing, wildlife habitat and recreation. Vegetation is curlyleaf muhly, hairy grama, black grama, skunkbush sumac, sotol, pricklypear, redberry juniper, oaks, and pinyon pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: LRR G; Western Great Plains Range and Irrigated Region; MLRA 70D-Southern Desert Foothills in West Texas. The soil is not extensive. The series name is taken from a spring occurring in Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/guadalup...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CHOZA.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: