IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tortugas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977AZ005004
  • User Pedon ID: 77AZ005004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0035
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45045
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 35.3730545
  • Std. Longitude: -112.8980560
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Coconino County, AZ. on the Aubrey Cliffs W of Seligman Arizona.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ005—Coconino

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. L. Richmond and D. R. Taylor
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tortugas
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1977
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    18

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    270

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    90

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    1A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; extremely stony loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00256. many very fine and fine roots
    1A12—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; cobbly loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00256. many very fine and fine roots
    1R—25 to 152 centimeters (9.8 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Horizontally fractured limestone with some brown 10YR 5/3 and dark brown 10YR 3/3 moist soil and roots in fractures.