IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Adelino
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2018NM013260
  • User Pedon ID: 2018NM013260
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0750
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33809
  • User Project ID: 2018 - SW-LAS - 001
  • Project Name: MLRA 42 - Chihuahuan D. Sedimentary Piedmonts and Basins LRU update, parts of NM690, 688, 660, 664, 029, 719 and TX624
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 32.4932917
  • Std. Longitude: -106.9153389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, SW 1/4
  • Location Description: east side of railroad cut.
  • Map Unit: Ae—Adelino clay loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM013—Dona Ana
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-LAS—Las Cruces, New Mexico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM690—Dona Ana County Area, New Mexico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32106-D8—Leasburg, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.H. Gile and R.B. Grossman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Adelino
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haplocambids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2018
  • Classifier - Cates, Greg
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Leasburg age fine-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: Leasburg age geomorphic surface terrace on valley-border surface
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Gile, Grossman
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ak

    Bk1

    Bk2

    Bkb1

    Bkb2

    Bkb3

    Bkb4

    Bkb5

    0

    10

    28

    43

    69

    91

    114

    142

    10

    28

    43

    69

    91

    114

    142

    173

    40A05563

    40A05564

    40A05565

    40A05566

    40A05567

    40A05568

    40A05569

    40A05570

    Gile, Grossman, Hawley, Lynn

    Gile, Grossman, Hawley, Lynn

    Gile, Grossman, Hawley, Lynn

    Gile, Grossman, Hawley, Lynn

    Gile, Grossman, Hawley, Lynn

    Gile, Grossman, Hawley, Lynn

    Gile, Grossman, Hawley, Lynn

    Gile, Grossman, Hawley, Lynn

    20.1

    37.1

    32.4

    32.9

    30.4

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    22.6

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    18.5

    22.7

    19.2

    22.2

    37.9

    37.5

    28

    18.3

    7.8

    11.5

    9.1

    9.6

    13.4

    11.2

    9.6

    5.4

    10.7

    11.2

    10.1

    12.6

    24.5

    26.3

    18.4

    12.9

    61.4

    40.2

    48.4

    44.9

    31.7

    39.1

    49.4

    63.9

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    0.3

    1.1

    0.1

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    1.4

    2.7

    1.9

    2.1

    0.4

    0.4

    0.3

    1.1

    3.4

    14

    4.1

    4.1

    0.8

    0.9

    0.9

    2.5

    21.6

    22.4

    18.4

    15.1

    4.9

    5.5

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    21.2

    34.7

    11.2

    23.9

    23.6

    25.6

    32.3

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ak

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    Bk2

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    Bkb3

    Bkb4

    Bkb5

    0

    10

    28

    43

    69

    91

    114

    142

    10

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    43

    69

    91

    114

    142

    173

    40A05563

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    40A05566

    40A05567

    40A05568

    40A05569

    40A05570

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ak

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    Bk2

    Bkb1

    Bkb2

    Bkb3

    Bkb4

    Bkb5

    0

    10

    28

    43

    69

    91

    114

    142

    10

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    43

    69

    91

    114

    142

    173

    40A05563

    40A05564

    40A05565

    40A05566

    40A05567

    40A05568

    40A05569

    40A05570

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—69

    —10—

    —59—
    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

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    Ak—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 61 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 20 percent clay; massive parts to weak platy; hard; few (0.5) roots; few (0.5) very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05563
    Bk1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 37 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard; few (0.5) fine roots; few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 1 percent carbonate nodules and 1 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05564
    Bk2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 48 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard; few (0.5) roots; few (0.5) very fine tubular pores; 1 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 1 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05565
    Bkb1—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; clay loam; 45 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky parts to massive; hard; common (3.0) very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 1 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05566
    Bkb2—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; 32 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 3 percent carbonate nodules and 3 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05567
    Bkb3—91 to 114 centimeters (35.8 to 44.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; 39 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard; common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 3 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules and 3 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05568
    Bkb4—114 to 142 centimeters (44.9 to 55.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; 49 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 23 percent clay;—Error in Exists On—structure; hard; few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 1 percent carbonate nodules and 3 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05569
    Bkb5—142 to 173 centimeters (55.9 to 68.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard; few (0.5) very fine tubular pores; 3 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 1 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 40A05570