IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rillito
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980AZ013005
  • User Pedon ID: 80AZ013005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0164
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47392
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 33.0036125
  • Std. Longitude: -112.6136093
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 397 meters N and 31 meters W of the SE corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ013—Maricopa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J P and D B
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Typic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rillito
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rillito
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, hyperthermic Typic Calciorthi
  • 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: medium
  • 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
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    273

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    225

    18

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    1A12—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P00825. common very fine roots throughout
    1A12—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior, dry; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate concretions; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00826. few fine lime concretions concentrations; many fine and medium roots throughout
    1C1ca—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky; 5.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine threadlike lime masses; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00827. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; many very fine roots throughout
    1C2ca—56 to 106 centimeters (22.0 to 41.7 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine threadlike lime masses and 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate nodules; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00828. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine lime nodules concentrations; common very fine roots throughout
    2B2tbca—106 to 157 centimeters (41.7 to 61.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay films between sand grains; 1 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 80P00829. Few clay films as colloidal stains.; few lime concretions concentrations; few clay films surface features between sand grains