IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Witt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 02NM049004a
  • User Pedon ID: 02NM049004
  • User Site Association ID: Santa Fe Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0601
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15506
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 35.1884722
  • Std. Longitude: -106.0673056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM049—Santa Fe
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35106-B1—King Draw, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jason Nemecek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Calciargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Witt
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Witt
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—5

    5—84

    84—216

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    1978

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    110

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N03004
    Bt—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03005
    Btk1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N03006
    Btk2—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N03007
    Bk1—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; loam; 16 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N03008
    Bk2—122 to 223 centimeters (48.0 to 87.8 inches); 50 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N03009
    Bk3—223 to 310 centimeters (87.8 to 122.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4.