IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Notal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NM045009
  • User Pedon ID: 86NM045009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NM045009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0585
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 36.4097214
  • Std. Longitude: -108.7486115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 486 feet north and 1,948 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 170—Notal sandy clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM045—San Juan
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM717—Shiprock Area, Parts of San Juan County, New Mexico and Apache County, Arizona
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36108-D6—Little Water, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. V. Chiaretti
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Typic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Notal
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tocito
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Torrio
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • 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

    ATOB

    HIJA

    SPAI

    Atriplex obovata

    Hilaria jamesii

    Sporobolus airoides

    mound saltbush

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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

    0

    —

    —

    1721

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    18

    —

    —

    11

    —

    —

    13

    22

    4

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; moderate coarse platy, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03367; dry when described;. few fine roots throughout
    2AB—5 to 40 centimeters (2.0 to 15.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03368; dry when described;. few fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout
    2BC—40 to 60 centimeters (15.7 to 23.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03369; dry when described;. common fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout
    3C1—60 to 95 centimeters (23.6 to 37.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate very coarse platy, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very 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 # 86P03370; dry when described;. Contains few thin strata of VFSL.; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout
    3C2—95 to 115 centimeters (37.4 to 45.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate very coarse platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03371; dry when described;. Contains few lamina of silty clay loam.; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    3C3—115 to 135 centimeters (45.3 to 53.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very 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 # 86P03372; dry when described;. Contains few lamina of silty clay loam.; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    3C4—135 to 160 centimeters (53.1 to 63.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P03373; dry when described;. common fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout