IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vaiva
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984AZ021009
  • User Pedon ID: 84AZ021009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0482
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54726
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 32.8416672
  • Std. Longitude: -112.1250000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet E and 600 feet S of NW corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ021—Pinal

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Hall, D. Brechenfeld, and C. Glocker.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Lithic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaiva
  • PSC - 3 to 20 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vaiva
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, hyperthermic Lithic Haplarg
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: 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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—3

    3—20

    20—43

    43—64

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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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    —

    561

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    0

    15

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    1A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02606. many very fine roots
    1Bt—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02607. many very fine roots
    2Cr—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) interior, dry; weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 84P02608. Common collodial staining on faces of fractures.
    2R—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 84P02609. Fractured granite rock. Few collodial stainings on faces of fractures.