IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boysag
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982AZ015027
  • User Pedon ID: 82AZ015027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0871
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51657
  • Print Date: 12/15/2025

    • 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: 36.9483337
  • Std. Longitude: -113.0419464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 41N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet E and 500 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Mohave County, Arizona. About 5.5 miles SW of Colorado City.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ015—Mohave
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Jorgensen and R.C. Herriman
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 27
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boysag
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, kaolinitic Lithic Ustollic Haplargids
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1982 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—36

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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

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    1585

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    12

    25

    1

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very channery loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04481. few fine roots throughout
    A2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; channery clay loam; moderate thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 vesicular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04482. few very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04483. few very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; channery clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04484. few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    2R—36 centimeters (14.2 inches); unweathered bedrock; 37 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films and 37 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) carbonate coats; fragments. Lab sample # 82P04485. common clay films surface features; common lime or carbonate coats surface features