IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lavodnas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NM031001
  • User Pedon ID: 87NM031001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0460
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 35.8219444
  • Std. Longitude: -107.3319444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18n
  • Range: 5w
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1,725 feet south and 1,641 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 22—Querencia-Lavodnas association, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM692—McKinley County Area, New Mexico, McKinley County and Parts of Cibola and San Juan Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35107-A1—Canoncito School, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Montoya
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Leptic Haplogypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lavodnas
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sandoval
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic, shallow Ustic To
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    4

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    2041

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    90

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. few fine roots; common very fine roots
    1Cy1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, dry; clay loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02392. Calcium carbonate is disseminated.; many medium gypsum crystals concentrations; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    1Cy—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, dry; clay; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 11 percent coarse gypsum crystals, unspecified; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Calcium carbonate is disseminated.; common coarse gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine roots; common very fine roots
    2Cr—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Soft gypsiferous shale and sandstone.
    2R—71 centimeters (28.0 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Hard sandstone.