IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penzance
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986AZ017013
  • User Pedon ID: 86AZ017013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59340
  • 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: 35.4872208
  • Std. Longitude: -109.9494476
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi S of Satan Butte.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ017—Navajo
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Robinson
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penzance
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Typic Haplargids
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: terrace—outwash or marine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (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

    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

    2

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    —

    1830

    —

    45

    22

    —

    —

    12

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    11

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    1AB—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior clay loam; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00250. common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior clay; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , dry, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00251. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots
    1Bt2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct , dry, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00252. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine roots
    1Btk1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , dry, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00253. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1Btk2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , dry, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00254. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1Btk3—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , dry, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00255. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine roots
    1Bt—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; 15 percent faint , dry, clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 87P00256. few clay films surface features on faces of peds