IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keeseha
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982AZ015032
  • User Pedon ID: 82AZ015032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0876
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51662
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 36.4480553
  • Std. Longitude: -113.1402740
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 2700 feet S and 1650 feet E of NW corner
  • Location Description: Mohave County, Arizona. The site is approximately 9 miles N of Mount Trumbull, Arizona.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ015—Mohave
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wendell Jorgensen and R.C. Herriman
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 32
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keeseha
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Ustollic Haplargids
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: low
  • 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—5

    10—46

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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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    1719

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    28

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    10

    24

    1

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly silt; weak thin platy, and weak granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04519. common fine roots
    AB—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak thin platy, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04520. few fine roots
    Bt—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04521. many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine roots
    Btk1—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and pink (7.5YR 7/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and pink (5YR 7/4), moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 11 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04522. common fine lime nodules concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine roots
    Btk2—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and pink (7.5YR 8/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4) and pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04523. common fine lime nodules concentrations; few fine roots
    Bk1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4) and light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine lime masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04524. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots
    Bk2—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and pink (5YR 8/3), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and pink (5YR 7/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 30 percent fine carbonate nodules; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04525. many fine lime nodules concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine roots
    2Bk1—91 to 124 centimeters (35.8 to 48.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and pink (5YR 8/3) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint , dry, clay films; 11 percent fine carbonate nodules; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04526. common fine lime nodules concentrations; common clay films surface features; few fine roots
    2Bk2—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; extremely cobbly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent carbonate nodules; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red. Lab sample # 82P04527. rock fragments are lime coated; few lime nodules concentrations; few fine roots