IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NM015016
  • User Pedon ID: 88NM015016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0804
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60922
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 32.4577789
  • Std. Longitude: -104.1511078
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet N and 175 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 2.5 mi NE of Carlsbad Lake Dam.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM015—Eddy

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, gypsic, thermic Sodic Haplogypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orla
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orla
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, gyspic, thermic Typic Gypsiorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04224. common very fine roots
    1Bw—5 to 41 centimeters (2.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04225. common very fine and fine roots; few coarse roots
    1By1—41 to 84 centimeters (16.1 to 33.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, dry; clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04226. few very fine roots
    1By2—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P04227. few very fine roots