IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Oracle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979AZ003011
  • User Pedon ID: 79AZ003011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0273
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47006
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 31.7305565
  • Std. Longitude: -109.8283310
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19S
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: immediately S of Gleeson 110 meters N and 110 meters E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Cochise County, AZ.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. L. Richardson and S. D. Hutchinson
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oracle
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Mollic Torrerts
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1979 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    15

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    495

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    90

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    1A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01449. many very fine and fine roots
    1A12—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01450. many very fine and fine roots
    1B2t—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; gravelly sandy clay loam, weathered bedrock; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01451. Many fine fractures. Many moderately thick clay films in fractures.; many very fine roots; few fine roots
    1B3t—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and red (2.5YR 5/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and red (2.5YR 5/6) interior, moist; very gravelly sandy loam, weathered bedrock; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01452. Common moderately thick clay films in fractures. Many fine fractures.; common very fine and fine roots
    1Cr—81 to 168 centimeters (31.9 to 66.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and red (2.5YR 5/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior and red (2.5YR 5/6) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; very hard, firm; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Many fine fractures. Common moderately thick clay films in fractures. Very slightly effervescent in spots.; few fine roots; common very fine roots