IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Augustine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NM031009
  • User Pedon ID: 85NM031009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0712
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56978
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: NEAR HARDGROUND FLATS. T17N, R16W.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Augustine
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hosta
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Aridic Haplustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—20

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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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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 1.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03660. many very fine roots; few to common fine and medium roots
    1Bt—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03661. HORIZON SPLIT AT 15 CM FOR SAMPLING PURPOSES.; common fine roots; few medium and coarse roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 230972; continuous - phpvsfiid 230972
    1Btk1—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03663. few very fine and fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 230973; continuous - phpvsfiid 230973
    1Btk2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03664. few very fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 230974; continuous - phpvsfiid 230974
    1Btk3—66 to 114 centimeters (26.0 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior and very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay; 41 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03665. few very fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 230975; continuous - phpvsfiid 230975
    2C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay; 50 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P03666. few fine prominent 5YR58 mottles