IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ruson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NM039003
  • User Pedon ID: 88NM039003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0135
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60258
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 36.2413902
  • Std. Longitude: -107.0344467
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: South of Lindreth 54A.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM039—Rio Arriba

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.J. Sokoll, D.A. Diekman, R.J. Ahrens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Torrertic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ruson
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ruson
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Ustorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • 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
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—0

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    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

    1

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    2166

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    315

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    1A—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00728. few fine roots
    1Bw1—2 to 13 centimeters (0.8 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00729. few fine and medium roots
    1Bw2—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00730. few fine and medium roots
    1C1—36 to 60 centimeters (14.2 to 23.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silty clay; massive; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00731. few very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1C2—60 to 97 centimeters (23.6 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00732. Fine strata of clay and silty clay loam.; few very fine and fine roots
    1C3—97 to 137 centimeters (38.2 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay; massive; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00733. few very fine roots
    1C4—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 88P00734. few very fine roots