Arenisco soil series
A representative soil profile of Arenisco fine sand, in an area of Lopeno-Potrero-Arenisco complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes. A krotovina, or animal burrow, is located at a depth of 150 centimeters. . (Soil Survey of Kenedy and Kleberg Counties, Texas; by Nathan I. Haile, and Dennis N. Brezina, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Arenisco series consists of very deep, excessively drained, rapidly permeable soils that formed in sandy eolian sediments of Holocene age. These soils are on nearly level to gently undulating, vegetated lag dunes on the south Texas coastal plain. Slope ranges from 0 to 5 percent. Mean annual air temperature is about 22 degrees C (72 degrees F), and mean annual precipitation is about 686 mm (27 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, hyperthermic Typic Ustipsamments
Soil Moisture: An Ustic moisture regime. The Soil Moisture Control Section (SMCS) is dry in some or all parts for more than 90 days cumulative in normal years. The SMCS is also either moist in some or all parts for 180 cumulative days or more or moist for 90 or more consecutive days in normal years. June through September are the driest months.
A water table is present in most pedons at depths of 102 to 203 cm (40 to 80 in) in most years from October to May.
Depth to redox concentrations: 102 to 203 cm (40 to 80 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average)
Clay content: 1 to 5 percent
Sand content: 91 to 97 percent
USE AND VEGETATION: Used for livestock grazing and wildlife habitat. Vegetation consists mostly of short to mid grasses such as sand bur, hairy grama, seacoast bluestem, gulfdune paspalum and threeawn. Forbs such as partridge pea, croton, ragweed, beebalm, false indigo, also many yellow and white flowered asteraceae of an unknown species at this time. The ecolocical site is Coastal Sand, PE 31-44 (150BY648TX).
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Gulf Coast Saline Prairies (MLRA 150B in LRR T) of south Texas. The series is of moderate extent. This soil was formerly included in the Falfurrias series. The Arenisco series was separated based on the occurrence of a water table at 102 to 203 cm (40 to 80 inches).
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/kenedykl...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/A/ARENISCO.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#arenisco
Arenisco soil series
A representative soil profile of Arenisco fine sand, in an area of Lopeno-Potrero-Arenisco complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes. A krotovina, or animal burrow, is located at a depth of 150 centimeters. . (Soil Survey of Kenedy and Kleberg Counties, Texas; by Nathan I. Haile, and Dennis N. Brezina, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Arenisco series consists of very deep, excessively drained, rapidly permeable soils that formed in sandy eolian sediments of Holocene age. These soils are on nearly level to gently undulating, vegetated lag dunes on the south Texas coastal plain. Slope ranges from 0 to 5 percent. Mean annual air temperature is about 22 degrees C (72 degrees F), and mean annual precipitation is about 686 mm (27 in).
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, hyperthermic Typic Ustipsamments
Soil Moisture: An Ustic moisture regime. The Soil Moisture Control Section (SMCS) is dry in some or all parts for more than 90 days cumulative in normal years. The SMCS is also either moist in some or all parts for 180 cumulative days or more or moist for 90 or more consecutive days in normal years. June through September are the driest months.
A water table is present in most pedons at depths of 102 to 203 cm (40 to 80 in) in most years from October to May.
Depth to redox concentrations: 102 to 203 cm (40 to 80 in)
Particle-size control section (weighted average)
Clay content: 1 to 5 percent
Sand content: 91 to 97 percent
USE AND VEGETATION: Used for livestock grazing and wildlife habitat. Vegetation consists mostly of short to mid grasses such as sand bur, hairy grama, seacoast bluestem, gulfdune paspalum and threeawn. Forbs such as partridge pea, croton, ragweed, beebalm, false indigo, also many yellow and white flowered asteraceae of an unknown species at this time. The ecolocical site is Coastal Sand, PE 31-44 (150BY648TX).
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Gulf Coast Saline Prairies (MLRA 150B in LRR T) of south Texas. The series is of moderate extent. This soil was formerly included in the Falfurrias series. The Arenisco series was separated based on the occurrence of a water table at 102 to 203 cm (40 to 80 inches).
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/texas/kenedykl...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/A/ARENISCO.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#arenisco