IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gunsight
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984AZ021006
  • User Pedon ID: 84AZ021006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0479
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54723
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 32.6583328
  • Std. Longitude: -111.7750015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet W and 200 feet N of SE corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ021—Pinal

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Hall and C. Glocker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Typic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gunsight
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gunsight
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, hyperthermic Typic Calciort
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1984 (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

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    8—152

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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

    5

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    478

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    315

    18

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02588. many very fine and fine roots
    1Bk1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; gravelly loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 11 percent irregular lime masses; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02589. common soft masses of lime concentrations; many very fine and fine roots
    1Bk2—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; carbonate coats on sand and gravel; 11 percent irregular lime masses; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02590. common soft masses of lime concentrations; many very fine and fine roots
    1Bk3—46 to 86 centimeters (18.1 to 33.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; carbonate coats on sand and gravel; 30 percent irregular lime masses; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02591. many soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots
    1Bk4—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; carbonate coats on sand and gravel; lime masses; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02592. Lime masses are weakly cemented.; few fine roots
    1Bk5—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; carbonate coats on sand and gravel and 15 percent carbonate coats in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P02593. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few lime or carbonate coats surface features in root channels and/or pores