IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kimbeto
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NM045015
  • User Pedon ID: 86NM045015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NM045015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0591
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58396
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.7361107
  • Std. Longitude: -108.7880554
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet N and 550 feet E of SW corner
  • 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-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Natrigypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimbeto
  • PSC - 5 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimbeto
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Haplic Natrargid
  • 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: upland slope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: with 45 to <100
  • 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

    ATCO

    ORHY

    SPAI

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Oryzopsis hymenoides

    Sporobolus airoides

    shadscale 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

    natric horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—5

    5—43

    20—97

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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

    —

    —

    1631

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    90

    18

    —

    —

    11

    —

    —

    13

    22

    4

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    —

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loamy fine sand; moderate coarse platy, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.3 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03407; dry when described;. few very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bt—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.3 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores and 15 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03408; dry when described;. very few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few clay films surface features between sand grains; few fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 231619; patchy - phpvsfiid 231620; patchy - phpvsfiid 231619; patchy - phpvsfiid 231620
    1Btk—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable by carbonates, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 11 percent fine irregular lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03409; dry when described;. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231621; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231621
    1Bk1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable by carbonates, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.3 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 30 percent fine and medium irregular lime masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03410; dry when described;. Rock fragments are arogonite (CaCO3).; many fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout
    2Bk2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy loam; moderate coarse platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable by carbonates, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 11 percent fine irregular lime masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03411; dry when described;. Rock fragments (L) are arogonite.; common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    3BCy—97 to 125 centimeters (38.2 to 49.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine platy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses and 11 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; 90 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03412; dry when described;. Rock fragments are soft and will slake.; very few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few very fine roots throughout
    3Cr—125 centimeters (49.2 inches); fragments. Soft sandstone bedrock.