IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Avondale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980AZ021001
  • User Pedon ID: 80AZ021001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48316
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 33.4055557
  • Std. Longitude: -111.9880524
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 574 meters E and 178 meters S of NW corner
  • Location Description: Maricopa, County, AZ. Center of plot 2A of Jacksons study.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ013—Maricopa
  • MLRA: 40—Sonoran Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. F. Ratliff
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Avondale
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed (calcareous) Anthropic Torrifluvents
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; hard, very friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00092. many very fine and fine roots
    1A12—15 to 31 centimeters (5.9 to 12.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00093. Few pockets of coarse sand grains; 2 to 3 percent by volume of coarse fragments less than 4 mm in diameter.; common very fine and fine roots
    1C1—31 to 118 centimeters (12.2 to 46.5 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular and 5.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 1 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00094. Ped surfaces are slighty darker than matrix. Split for sampling: 31 to 48 cm sample No. 94, 48 to 69 cm sample No. 95, 69 to 89 sample No. 96, 96 to 118 sample No. 97.; few lime concretions concentrations; common very fine and fine roots
    1C2—118 to 152 centimeters (46.5 to 59.8 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine and medium tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00098. Texture becomes sandier with depth estimated 5 - 10 percent by volume coarse fragments less than 1 cm in diameter; split for sampling: 118 to 130 sample No. 98; 130 to 152 sample No. 99.; few lime concretions concentrations; few very fine and fine roots
    1C3—152 to 191 centimeters (59.8 to 75.2 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; clay loam; weak fine blocky structure; very hard, firm; 5.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P00100. Estimated 10 to 15 pecent by volume of white threads and masses of CaCO3; horizon is compact in place and has a few brittle bodies which may be highly weathered coarse fragments; split for sampling: 152 to 170 sample No 100; 170 to 191 sampl