IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fajada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NM031006
  • User Pedon ID: 88NM031006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0751
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 35.9444427
  • 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fajada
  • 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 - 6/1/1988
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    1967

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    E—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; loam; strong medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine and medium vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03968. few very fine and fine roots
    Btn—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03969. few very fine and fine roots
    Btkn1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; sandy clay loam; strong medium prismatic, and coarse structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03970. common very fine and fine roots
    Btkn2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and coarse structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03971. few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; common very fine and fine roots
    By—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 30 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03972. many nests on gypsum crystals; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; many medium gypsum crystals concentrations; few very fine roots
    2Cr—71 centimeters (28.0 inches); fragments. soft sandstone