IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gunsight
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980AZ013009
  • User Pedon ID: 80AZ013009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0168
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47396
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 32.9797211
  • Std. Longitude: -112.6588898
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 656 meters S and 580 meters W of the NW corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ013—Maricopa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J P and D B
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Typic Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gunsight
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gunsight
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, hyperthermic Typic Calciort
  • 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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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00850. many very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout
    1C1ca—8 to 43 centimeters (3.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; gravelly 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 on sand and gravel; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00851. many very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout
    1C2ca—43 to 97 centimeters (16.9 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; massive; very hard, very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; carbonate coats on sand and gravel; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 70 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00852. few very fine roots throughout
    1C3ca—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior, dry; very gravelly loamy sand; massive; hard, very friable; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; carbonate coats on sand and gravel and carbonate coats on sand and gravel; 1 percent fine lime masses; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 80P00854. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations