IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nageezi
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NM045010
  • User Pedon ID: 86NM045010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NM045010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0586
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58391
  • Print Date: 5/7/2025

    • 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: 36.4044456
  • Std. Longitude: -108.6377792
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet W and 1600 feet S of NE corner
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM045—San Juan
  • MLRA: 37—San Juan River Valley Mesas and Plateaus

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. R. Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nageezi
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nakai
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • 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

    HIJA

    ORHY

    Hilaria jamesii

    Oryzopsis hymenoides

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—10

    36—142

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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

    1

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    1682

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    225

    18

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    11

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    13

    22

    4

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine platy, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03375; dry when described;. few fine and medium roots throughout
    Bw—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P03376; dry when described;. few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bk1—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P03377; dry when described;. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine and medium roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout
    2Bk2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; sandy loam; moderate fine platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable by carbonates, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 11 percent fine and medium irregular carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P03378; dry when described;. common fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout
    2Bk3—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable by carbonates, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fine and medium irregular carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P03379; dry when described;. few very fine and fine roots throughout
    2Bk4—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable by carbonates, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent fine and medium irregular carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P03380; dry when described;. many fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    3Bk5—122 to 142 centimeters (48.0 to 55.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable by carbonates, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 11 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P03381; dry when described;. common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    3Bk6—142 to 163 centimeters (55.9 to 64.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P03382; dry when described;. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine and medium roots throughout; few very fine roots throughout