IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Avondale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980AZ021003
  • User Pedon ID: 80AZ021003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48318
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 33.4052773
  • Std. Longitude: -111.9894409
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 569 meters E and 183 meters S of NW corner
  • Location Description: Maricopa County, AZ. Center of plot 1B 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 #: 3
  • 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

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • 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); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; weak fine 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 # 81P00112. many very fine and fine roots
    1A12—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) 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 # 81P00113. common very fine and fine roots
    1C1—46 to 127 centimeters (18.1 to 50.0 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular pores; 1 percent threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00114. Pecent of sand gradually increases with depth.; few lime concretions concentrations; common fine roots
    1C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 10 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 # 81P00115. few fine roots
    1C3—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P00116. Horizon is compact in place and has a few brittle bodies that appear to be highly weathered coarse fragments; about 5 to 10 percent by volume soft masses and threads of CaCO3.