IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hueco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2018NM013288
  • User Pedon ID: 2018NM013288
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0496
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62429
  • 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: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 32.6088083
  • Std. Longitude: -106.7969611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 S
  • Range: 1 E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SW 1/4
  • Location Description: In the Rabbit exclosure on the Jornada Experimental Range. The northeast corner of the exclosure is 4 m south of the south edge of the road to Headquarters. The sampled pedon is 2.3 m southeast of the nonrecording rain gauge, and 50 cm southeast of wires leading to the soil moisture blocks.
  • Map Unit: OR—Onite-Pintura complex
  • 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-E7—Summerford Mountain, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. H. Gile
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Argic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hueco
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Argic Petrocalcids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 12 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2018
  • 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: Upper Camp Rice fluvial facies coarse-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: interdune on La Mesa age geomorphic surface broad basin floor
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/12/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Gile
  • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    C

    BAtkb

    Btkb1

    Btkb2

    Btkb3

    Btkb4

    0

    5

    12

    23

    34

    44

    57

    5

    12

    23

    34

    44

    57

    67

    90P02748

    90P02749

    90P02750

    90P02751

    90P02752

    90P02753

    90P02754

    Gile

    Gile

    Gile

    Gile

    Gile

    Gile

    Gile

    8.9

    9.2

    14.7

    18.9

    19.9

    16.1

    19.7

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    2.3

    2

    4.2

    5.4

    3.7

    6.6

    10.6

    1.9

    1.5

    3.1

    3.6

    3.3

    3.5

    5.1

    0.4

    0.5

    1.1

    1.8

    0.4

    3.1

    5.5

    88.8

    88.8

    81.1

    75.7

    76.4

    77.3

    69.7

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    0.4

    0.8

    0.7

    0.8

    1.3

    2

    1

    2.6

    4.3

    4.7

    5.7

    5.5

    6.6

    4.9

    30.1

    32.2

    29.7

    25.9

    25.9

    26.8

    23.2

    41.9

    39.9

    35.8

    31.3

    31.6

    32

    30.4

    13.8

    11.6

    10.2

    12

    12.1

    9.9

    10.2

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    ls

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    fsl

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    fsl

    fsl

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    8

    8.1

    8.1

    8.1

    8.3

    8.3
    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

    A

    C

    BAtkb

    Btkb1

    Btkb2

    Btkb3

    Btkb4

    0

    5

    12

    23

    34

    44

    57

    5

    12

    23

    34

    44

    57

    67

    90P02748

    90P02749

    90P02750

    90P02751

    90P02752

    90P02753

    90P02754

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    5.8

    5.6

    7.7

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    10.2

    9

    7.4

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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 %

    A

    C

    BAtkb

    Btkb1

    Btkb2

    Btkb3

    Btkb4

    0

    5

    12

    23

    34

    44

    57

    5

    12

    23

    34

    44

    57

    67

    90P02748

    90P02749

    90P02750

    90P02751

    90P02752

    90P02753

    90P02754

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    0.52

    0.15

    0.15

    0.15

    0.15

    0.14

    0.16

    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—12

    12—67

    67—69

    —12—

    —55—

    —2—
    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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    1326

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist; loamy sand; 89 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 9 percent clay; very few (0.1) fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02748
    C—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist; loamy sand; 89 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 9 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable; very few (0.1) fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02749
    BAtkb—12 to 23 centimeters (4.7 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 88 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; very few (0.1) fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; 1 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02750
    Btkb1—23 to 34 centimeters (9.1 to 13.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 76 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; very few (0.1) fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; 1 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 1 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02751
    Btkb2—34 to 44 centimeters (13.4 to 17.3 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 76 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; very few (0.1) fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; 3 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 1 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02752
    Btkb3—44 to 57 centimeters (17.3 to 22.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 77 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; very few (0.1) fine roots; clay bridges between sand grains; 3 percent threadlike carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 1 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02753
    Btkb4—57 to 67 centimeters (22.4 to 26.4 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/3), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; very few (0.1) fine roots; reddish brown (5YR 5/4) clay bridges between sand grains; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 1 percent by volume 5-13-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02754
    Bkkmb—67 to 69 centimeters (26.4 to 27.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/3), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; cemented material; extremely firm by carbonates; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.