IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sparank
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NM031001
  • User Pedon ID: 86NM031001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0207
  • 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: 35.4463882
  • Std. Longitude: -107.9680557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14n
  • Range: 11w
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 1222 feet south and 1228 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 230—Sparank-San Mateo-Zia complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM692—McKinley County Area, New Mexico, McKinley County and Parts of Cibola and San Juan Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35107-D8—Goat Mountain, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Montoya and J. Melhus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aridic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sparank
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Catman
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, montmorillonitic (calcareous), mesic Ve
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1986 (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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01232. Many 3 cm wide vertical cracks.; common very fine and fine roots
    1C1—8 to 61 centimeters (3.1 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01233. Many 1 cm wide vertical cracks.; few intersecting slickensides surface features; common very fine and fine roots
    1C2—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; massive; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P01234. few intersecting slickensides surface features; few very fine and fine roots