IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moenkopie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977AZ005008
  • User Pedon ID: 77AZ005008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45049
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 35.5675011
  • Std. Longitude: -111.4899979
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 762 meters E and 122 meters S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Coconino County, AZ.
  • 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 #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moenkopie
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous) Lithic Torriorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1977
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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
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    1A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00273. few very fine and fine roots
    1A12—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00274. few very fine and fine roots
    1C—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; gravelly loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00275. Horizontally fractured sandy shale and sandstone fragments.; few very fine and fine roots
    1R—36 to 50 centimeters (14.2 to 19.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Not sampled. Horizontally fractured calcareous bedrock.