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Key Characteristics
- Soils are deep to very deep, greater than 40 inches
- Soils on depressions, drainageways, or flood plains
- Soils in a closed depression
- Soils with fluctuating water table levels and ponded after heavy rains
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Key Characteristics
- Soils are deep to very deep, greater than 40 inches
- Soils on depressions, drainageways, or flood plains
- Soils in flood plain or drainageway
- Visible salts less than 40 inches
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Key Characteristics
- Soils are deep to very deep, greater than 40 inches
- Soils on other landforms
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- Soil profile is effervescent to the surface
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Key Characteristics
- Soils are deep to very deep, greater than 40 inches
- Soils on other landforms
- All others
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- All others
- Soils with fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loamy sand surface textures
- Soils with sandy textures greater than 80 inches deep
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Key Characteristics
- Soils are deep to very deep, greater than 40 inches
- Soils on other landforms
- All others
- All others
- All others
- Soils with fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loamy sand surface textures
- All others
- Depth to argillic greater than 14 inches
- Textural change of argillic greater than 30 inches
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Key Characteristics
- Soils are deep to very deep, greater than 40 inches
- Soils on other landforms
- All others
- All others
- All others
- Soils with fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loamy sand surface textures
- All others
- Depth to argillic greater than 14 inches
- Textural change of argillic less than 30 inches
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Key Characteristics
- Soils are deep to very deep, greater than 40 inches
- Soils on other landforms
- All others
- All others
- All others
- Soils with fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loamy sand surface textures
- All others
- Depth to argillic less than 14 inches
- Subsoils slightly deeper, slightly lower in clay content, and more permeable
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Key Characteristics
- Soils are deep to very deep, greater than 40 inches
- Soils on other landforms
- All others
- All others
- All others
- Soils with fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loamy sand surface textures
- All others
- Depth to argillic less than 14 inches
- Subsoils slightly more shallow, more droughty, higher in clay content, and perch water more readily
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Ecological site keys
MLRA 83E
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Depth to densic material less than 40 inches
A.
Soils with gravels in epipedon
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Greater than 15 percent of soil surface covered by large pebbles
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Less than 15 percent of soil surface covered by large pebbles
i.
Strongly cemented calcium carbonate less than 20 inches
ii.
All others
B.
Soils without gravels in epipedon
1
Soils with sandy loam or loam surface texture
2
All others
II.
Soils are deep to very deep, greater than 40 inches
A.
Soils on depressions, drainageways, or flood plains
1
Soils in a closed depression
i.
Permanent water table at/or near surface and ponded for most of year
ii.
Soils with fluctuating water table levels and ponded after heavy rains
... R083EY007TX – Lakebed
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Soils in flood plain or drainageway
ii.
All others
a.
Soils with fine surface textures (clay and silty clay)
b.
All others
1)
Soils with deep sands and effervescent throughout profile
2)
All others
a)
Soils with a developed argillic horizon
b)
All others
i)
Upland drainageway without defined, prominent channel
ii)
Low flood plain with loamy‐textured soils and prominent channel
B.
Soils on other landforms
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Visible salts less than 24 inches
i.
Soils with sandy or sandy loam surface textures
ii.
All others
a.
Soils classified as vertisols with high shrink‐swell potential
b.
Soils belonging to other taxonomic orders with low to moderate shrink‐swell potential
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All others
i.
Soils classified as vertisols with high shrink‐swell potential
a.
Dark‐colored surface with value/chroma of 3/1 or darker and non‐sodic
b.
Lighter‐colored surface and sodic
ii.
All others
b.
All others
1)
Soils with fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loamy sand surface textures
b)
All others
i)
Depth to argillic greater than 14 inches
ii)
Depth to argillic less than 14 inches
1)
Subsoils slightly deeper, slightly lower in clay content, and more permeable
... R083EY023TX – Sandy Loam
2)
Subsoils slightly more shallow, more droughty, higher in clay content, and perch water more readily
... R083EY024TX – Tight Sandy Loam
2)
Soils with clay loam, sandy clay loam, or silty clay loam surface textures
a)
Soils in MLRAs 83B, 83C, or 83D
b)
Soils in MLRA 83A
i)
Soils from center of Atascosa County east
ii)
Soils from center of Atascosa County west
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