IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Starlake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NM031003
  • User Pedon ID: 87NM031003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0462
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59757
  • 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: 35.6544456
  • Std. Longitude: -107.8288879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Starlake
  • PSC - 8 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • 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
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    2

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    0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; loam; moderate medium platy structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P2395. few fine roots; common very fine roots
    8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; clay loam; moderate medium 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 # 87P2396. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few medium roots; few very fine and fine roots
    28 to 84 centimeters (11.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Calcium carbonate is disseminated.; few medium roots; few very fine and fine roots
    84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine roots