IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shiprock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NM031100
  • User Pedon ID: 86NM031100
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0033
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 35.8538895
  • Std. Longitude: -108.3211136
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19n
  • Range: 14w
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 845 feet south and 773 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Approx. 3 mi NE of Standing Rock, Approx 125 feet SE of dirt road.
  • Map Unit: 100b—Norkiki-Kimnoli complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 37—San Juan River Valley Mesas and Plateaus
  • 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: 35108-G3—Standing Rock, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Hibner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 100
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shiprock
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monue
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1986 (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

    cambic horizon

    28—76

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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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    —

    1940

    —

    315

    22

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    —

    12

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    11

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00166; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1AB—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00167; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots
    1BA—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00168; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay bridges on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00169; moist when described;. few clay bridging surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 221267; patchy - phpvsfiid 221267
    1Btk—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains and 15 percent distinct carbonate coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00170; dry when described;. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few clay bridging surface features between sand grains; few lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 231820; patchy - phpvsfiid 231820
    1Bk—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very coarse tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct skeletans over cutans in root channels and/or pores and 15 percent distinct carbonate coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00171; dry when described;. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few skeletans over cutans surface features in root channels and/or pores; few lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231822; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231822
    1C—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very coarse tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00172; dry when described;. few very fine and fine roots
    2Btkb—102 to 119 centimeters (40.2 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00173; dry when described;. many fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 231824; patchy - phpvsfiid 231824
    3Bk—119 to 132 centimeters (46.9 to 52.0 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct carbonate coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00174; dry when described;. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    3Cr—132 to 140 centimeters (52.0 to 55.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 87P00175; dry when described;. Soft sandstone bedrock.