IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penzance
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986AZ017001
  • User Pedon ID: 86AZ017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0490
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58295
  • 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: 34.9900017
  • Std. Longitude: -109.8708344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: Center
  • Location Description: about 17 mi E by NE of Holbrook.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ017—Navajo

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Penzance
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penzance
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1986
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1986 (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 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) interior, dry; clay loam; weak fine platy, and moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02918. many very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02919. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 37 percent pressure faces; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02920. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common pressure faces surface features; many very fine and fine roots
    1Btk1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 15 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine spherical salt masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02921. few fine salt masses concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few pressure faces surface features; many very fine and fine roots
    1Btk2—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 55 percent pressure faces; 11 percent fine spherical salt masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02922. common fine salt masses concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many pressure faces surface features; few very fine and fine roots
    1Btk3—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 37 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02923. Look for Mn.-few fine Mn coatings on ped faces.; few fine salt masses concentrations; common pressure faces surface features; few intersecting slickensides surface features; few very fine roots
    1Bk1—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 37 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02924. few fine salt masses concentrations; common intersecting slickensides surface features; few very fine roots
    1Bk2—127 to 145 centimeters (50.0 to 57.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 37 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02925. few fine salt masses concentrations; common intersecting slickensides surface features
    1Bk3—145 to 173 centimeters (57.1 to 68.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P02926. few fine salt masses concentrations; few pressure faces surface features