IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hackroy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NM028001
  • User Pedon ID: 87NM028001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987NM028001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0685
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59980
  • 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: 35.8508339
  • Std. Longitude: -106.2719421
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Los Alamos Co; Los Alamos Nat Lab; Pajarito Rd.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM028—Los Alamos
  • MLRA: 36—Southwestern Plateaus, Mesas, and Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Hacker and R. Ahrens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hackroy
  • PSC - 2 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hackroy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, mesic, shallow Aridic Haplustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    BOGR2

    Bouteloua gracilis

    blue grama

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—2

    2—42

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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

    6

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    2144

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    0

    35

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    1A—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03665; dry when described;. Incipient E in some places.; many very fine roots
    1Bt1—2 to 15 centimeters (0.8 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03666; moist when described;. few clay films surface features; common fine roots
    1Bt2—15 to 24 centimeters (5.9 to 9.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 medium roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03667; moist when described;. few clay films surface features; common medium roots
    1Bt3—24 to 31 centimeters (9.4 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots; 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03668; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 222302; continuous - phpvsfiid 222302
    2Crt—31 to 42 centimeters (12.2 to 16.5 inches); 0.5 fine roots; 55 percent , moist, clay films; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03669; moist when described;. many clay films surface features; few fine roots
    2Cr—42 to 80 centimeters (16.5 to 31.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 87P03670