IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Delnorte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985TX141002
  • User Pedon ID: 85TX141002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0647
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56913
  • 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: 31.9127769
  • Std. Longitude: -106.5175018
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 10 mi N of El Paso on I-10; 4.4 mi E of I-10 at Canutillo to Tom Mays Park rd; 0.2 mi N on Tom Mays Park rd.
  • State: Texas
  • County: TX141—El Paso

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Ustic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Delnorte
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Delnorte
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Typic Paleorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1985 (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
    • 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
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    1A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03345. Platy crust in upper 0.5 cm; subangular blocky structure below crust; 20 percent by volume of mixed volcanic pebbles mostly less than 2.5 cm in diameter.; few fine roots
    1Bw—4 to 12 centimeters (1.6 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03346. 45 percent by volume of mixed volcanic pebbles with few cobbles; fragments have patchy films of calcium carbonate on lower surfaces.; few worm casts concentrations; common fine roots
    1Bk1—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03347. 50 percent by volume of mixed volcanic pebbles and cobbles; few soft bodies, films, and threads of calcium carbonate; fragments have patchy films of calcium carbonate on lower surfaces.; few worm casts concentrations; common fine roots
    1Bk2—25 to 35 centimeters (9.8 to 13.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03348. 50 percent by volume of mixed volcanic pebbles; about 10 percent by volume of fine and medium concretions of calcium carbonate; fragments have patchy coatings of calcium carbonate; few worm casts concentrations; common fine roots
    1Bkm—35 to 43 centimeters (13.8 to 16.9 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 85P03349. Indurated caliche containing about 50 percent embedded volcanic and crystalline pebbles and cobbles; upper 1 cm is laminar and mostly void of fragments.