IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fajada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NM031002
  • User Pedon ID: 87NM031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0461
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 35.9444427
  • Std. Longitude: -107.9486084
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20n
  • Range: 11w
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 582 feet north and 48 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 120—Doak-Shiprock complex, 1 to 8 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-H8—Seven Lakes NW, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Montoya, B. Ahrens, S. Park, A. Kosse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fajada
  • PSC - 5 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fajada
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Natrargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1987
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • 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

    2

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    1E—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine vesicular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. few very fine and fine roots
    1Btn1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02393. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few medium roots; few very fine and fine roots
    1Btn2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02393. few medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common clay films surface features between sand grains; few medium roots; few very fine and fine roots
    1Btn3—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films between sand grains; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02393. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few clay films surface features between sand grains; few very fine and fine roots
    1By—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02394. few fine gypsum crystals concentrations
    2Cr—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Soft sandstone interbedded with soft shale.