IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bucklebar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NM007008
  • User Pedon ID: 88NM007008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0898
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61016
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • Location Description: S bank of trench, Las Cruces Municipal Airport in pipe about 25 feet E of S61
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM007—Colfax

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 0-188 cm described by L.H. Gile and R.B. Grossman.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucklebar
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucklebar
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (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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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. 68L1400; not sampled because the horizon is overlain and disturbed by spoil pile; sampled offset; noncalcareous; no roots
    BAt—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dry; fine sandy loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; hard; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. 68L1401; massive internally; few insect burrows, noncalcareous; few roots
    Btk1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; sandy clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard; 0.5 roots; 11 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. 68L81402; common fine carbonate threads concentrations; few roots
    Btk2—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 11 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. 68L1403; common carbonate nodules concentrations
    Btk3—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard; 11 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. 68L1404; about 20% red (3YR 4.5/5 dry, 3/5 moist) blebs; common carbonate nodules concentrations
    K&B1—114 to 157 centimeters (44.9 to 61.8 inches); 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 70 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4), 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and 70 percent pink (7.5YR 8/4), dry; sandy loam; massive; hard; fragments; clear wavy boundary. 68L1405; occurring in nodular and cylindroidal form, with abrupt boundaries to adjacent K-fabric; Bt fabric is noncalcareous; some parts slightly effervescent and the remainder strongly effervescent
    K&B—119 to 137 centimeters (46.9 to 53.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 75 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) and 75 percent pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04844. sand grains in reddish brown material coated with silicate clay; most of horizon strongly effervescent, the Bt material is slightly effervescent or is noncalcareous
    K2—137 to 170 centimeters (53.9 to 66.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and pink (7.5YR 7/4), white (10YR 8/1) and pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04845. cemented K-fabric, that is easily removed by hammer; this horizon disappears 30 cm to the east, at the boundary between the K2 and the pipe, and grades to a continuously indurated K2m just west of the sampled pedon
    K&B2—157 to 188 centimeters (61.8 to 74.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard; fragments; strong effervescence. 65% of K fabric, 20% B fabric, and 15% of calcareous light brown (7.5YR 6/4) dry material
    K3—170 to 196 centimeters (66.9 to 77.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), very pale brown (10YR 8/2) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) and pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), dry; sandy loam; medium and coarse subangular blocky, and massive; soft; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04846. cemented K-fabric
    Btk1'—196 to 208 centimeters (77.2 to 81.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry; loamy sand; moderate fine and medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04847. sand grains in reddish brown material coated with clay; prisms thinly coated with carbonate that descends along cracks between prisms, and that in many places is continuous with prism coatings that descend through the Btk subhorizons below,
    Btk2'—208 to 236 centimeters (81.9 to 92.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), dry; sand; moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; very hard; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04848. generally hard and extremely hard except for discontinuous, irregular zone about 40 cm long and ranging from 5-15 cm in diameter, horizontal in part and making a right angle to vertical, of soft to hard, calcareous material (not included in
    Btk3'—236 to 259 centimeters (92.9 to 102.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), dry; sand; moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; extremely hard; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04849. sand grains in reddish brown material coated with clay; prisms thinly coated with carbonate; prism interiors noncalcareous; most prisms massive, others part to weak medium subangular blocky
    Btk4—259 to 284 centimeters (102.0 to 111.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), dry; sand; moderate fine and medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04850. sand grains in reddish brown material coated with clay; prisms thinly coated with carbonate; prism interiors noncalcareous
    K2m—284 to 292 centimeters (111.8 to 115.0 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry; medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 88P04851. cemented K-fabric breaks with hammer