Carmine soil series
A representative soil profile of Carmine extremely gravelly very fine sandy loam. The clayey subsoil, which contains a large amount of gravel and a few cobbles, begins at a depth of about 85 centimeters. (Soil Survey of Fayette County, Texas; by Dennis D. Ressel and Samuel E. Brown, Jr., Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Carmine series consists of very deep, moderately well drained, very slowly permeable soils that formed in stratified loamy, clayey and siliceous gravel deposits. These soils are on quaternary terraces. Slopes range from 2 to 5 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, thermic Udic Paleustalfs
The solum thickness is more than 80 inches. The combined thickness of the A, AE and E horizons range from 20 to 40 inches. Clay content of the control section ranges from 20 to 35 percent. Rounded siliceous pebbles and cobbles are on the surface and in the A, AE, E, and upper Bt horizons. They average greater than 60 percent by volume in the A, AE and E horizons and greater than 35 percent by volume in the particle-size control section. Cobbles average less than 5 percent by volume in the surface horizon.
USE AND VEGETATION: This soil is used as rangeland and for wildlife habitat. Native vegetation is post oak, blackjack oak and scattered hickory and live oak trees. Understory vegetation includes yaupon, red cedar, juniper, croton, greenbriar, paspalums, prickly pear cactus, bitterweed, panicums and little bluestem.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Mainly on the high quaternary terraces in the southern part of the Texas Claypan Land Resource Area. The series is of minor extent.
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Carmine soil series
A representative soil profile of Carmine extremely gravelly very fine sandy loam. The clayey subsoil, which contains a large amount of gravel and a few cobbles, begins at a depth of about 85 centimeters. (Soil Survey of Fayette County, Texas; by Dennis D. Ressel and Samuel E. Brown, Jr., Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Carmine series consists of very deep, moderately well drained, very slowly permeable soils that formed in stratified loamy, clayey and siliceous gravel deposits. These soils are on quaternary terraces. Slopes range from 2 to 5 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, thermic Udic Paleustalfs
The solum thickness is more than 80 inches. The combined thickness of the A, AE and E horizons range from 20 to 40 inches. Clay content of the control section ranges from 20 to 35 percent. Rounded siliceous pebbles and cobbles are on the surface and in the A, AE, E, and upper Bt horizons. They average greater than 60 percent by volume in the A, AE and E horizons and greater than 35 percent by volume in the particle-size control section. Cobbles average less than 5 percent by volume in the surface horizon.
USE AND VEGETATION: This soil is used as rangeland and for wildlife habitat. Native vegetation is post oak, blackjack oak and scattered hickory and live oak trees. Understory vegetation includes yaupon, red cedar, juniper, croton, greenbriar, paspalums, prickly pear cactus, bitterweed, panicums and little bluestem.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Mainly on the high quaternary terraces in the southern part of the Texas Claypan Land Resource Area. The series is of minor extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/TX149/0/...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CARMINE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: