IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hackroy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NM028002
  • User Pedon ID: 87NM028002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0687
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59982
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 35.8499985
  • Std. Longitude: -106.2705536
  • 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, mesic, shallow Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hackroy
  • PSC - 10 to 30 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

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—30

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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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    1A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03680; dry when described;. 1 cm surface crust.; common fine roots
    1A—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03681; dry when described;. many very fine roots
    1Bt1—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03682; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots
    1Bt2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03683; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium roots
    2Crt—30 to 65 centimeters (11.8 to 25.6 inches); , moist, clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 87P03684; moist when described;. Fractured soft tuff with clay films.; continuous - phpvsfiid 222310; continuous - phpvsfiid 222310
    2Cr—65 centimeters (25.6 inches); fragments.