IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Avondale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980AZ021004
  • User Pedon ID: 80AZ021004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0019
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48319
  • 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: 33.4002762
  • Std. Longitude: -111.9894409
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 416 meters E and 772 meters S of NW corner
  • Location Description: Maricopa County, AZ. Center of plot F1 of Field C3 Gwinn 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 #: 4
  • 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); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; massive; hard, friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00117. common fine and medium roots
    1A12—15 to 35 centimeters (5.9 to 13.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; massive; hard, friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 tubular pores; 11 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00118. common worm casts concentrations; common fine and medium roots
    1C1—35 to 99 centimeters (13.8 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 fine and medium tubular and 2.5 coarse tubular pores; 11 percent worm casts and 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00119. Sample 81P019 depths 53-69 cm and sample 81P0120 depths 69-89 cm.; common worm casts concentrations; few fine lime concretions concentrations; common fine and medium roots
    1C2—99 to 130 centimeters (39.0 to 51.2 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; massive; very hard, friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 fine and 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 # 81P00121. Few coarse fragments mostly less than 4 mm in diameter.; few lime concretions concentrations; few fine and medium roots
    1C3—130 to 185 centimeters (51.2 to 72.8 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P00122. Estimated 10 percent by volume white and pale brown CaCO3.; few fine roots