IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cipriano
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981AZ015007
  • User Pedon ID: 81AZ015007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0372
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49216
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 34.9764137
  • Std. Longitude: -114.4388580
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet E and 2200 feet S of NW corner
  • Location Description: Mohave County, 15 mi NE of Needles, CA, 4.5 mi SW of Oatman.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ015—Mohave
  • MLRA: 31—Lower Colorado Desert

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.C. Herriman, R.L. Barmore, W.D. Nettleton
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cipriano
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, hyperthermic, shallow Typic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    calcic horizon

    ochric epipedon

    duripan

    0—0

    0—0

    0—0

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    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    —

    167

    —

    270

    229

    —

    —

    22

    33

    11

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02004. many very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    BC—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, dry; gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02005. many fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    Bk—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02006. Pebbles are also pebble-size pan fragments; many very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    2Bqm1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, dry; massive; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02007. Indurated silica and lime cemented duripan with laminar cap.
    2Bqm2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, dry; massive; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02008. Strongly cemented palty duripan
    Bqk1—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, dry; massive; weakly cemented; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02009
    Bqk2—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P02010. Discontinuous weakly cemented duripan.; effervescence is continuous