IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quilotosa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980AZ013003
  • User Pedon ID: 80AZ013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0162
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47390
  • 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: 33.0705566
  • Std. Longitude: -112.5605545
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 305 meters E and 259 meters S of the NW corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ013—Maricopa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J P and D B
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, hyperthermic, shallow Lithic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Quilotosa
  • PSC - 25 to 35 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quilotosa
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed (calcareous), hyperthermic L
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    23

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    489

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    90

    20

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; extremely bouldery sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 80 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00818. many very fine roots throughout
    1C1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; extremely bouldery sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; carbonate coats; 65 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00819. many very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout
    1C2—15 to 35 centimeters (5.9 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; carbonate coats; 65 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00820. common very fine roots throughout; few fine and medium roots throughout
    2Cr—35 to 48 centimeters (13.8 to 18.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00821. Colloidal staining and thin lime coating in faces of rock fractures.
    3R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled.