IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ravola
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NM045007
  • User Pedon ID: 86NM045007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NM045007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0583
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58388
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 36.6311111
  • Std. Longitude: -108.6516647
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM045—San Juan
  • MLRA: 37—San Juan River Valley Mesas and Plateaus

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. V. Chiaretti and W. R. Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluventic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ravola
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Awet
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Torrifluvent
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1986 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    HIJA

    ORHY

    SPAI

    Hilaria jamesii

    Oryzopsis hymenoides

    Sporobolus airoides

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    alkali sacaton

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—5

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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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    1606

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    315

    18

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    11

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    13

    22

    4

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate coarse platy, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03353; dry when described;. few very fine and fine roots throughout
    1A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03354; dry when described;. few fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout
    1AB—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03355; dry when described;. Few to common silty lamina less than 2 mm thick.; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1BCy—30 to 55 centimeters (11.8 to 21.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03356; dry when described;. Few to common silty lamina less than 2 mm thick.; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; common fine roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout
    1C1—55 to 100 centimeters (21.7 to 39.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03357; dry when described;. Few to common silty lamina less than 2 mm thick.; very few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1C2—100 to 135 centimeters (39.4 to 53.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; loam; moderate very coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03358; dry when described;. Few to common silty lamina less than 2 mm thick.; very few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    1C3—135 to 170 centimeters (53.1 to 66.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P03359; dry when described;. Few to common silty lamina less than 2 mm thick.; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few very fine roots throughout