IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hosta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NM039005
  • User Pedon ID: 88NM039005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0137
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60260
  • 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: 36.2224998
  • Std. Longitude: -107.2266693
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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 Aridic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hosta
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hosta
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Aridic Haplustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—5

    5—89

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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

    3

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    2208

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    90

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00744. many fine and medium roots
    1Bt1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00745. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine and fine roots; many medium roots
    1Bt2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay; weak medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent pressure faces; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00746. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common pressure faces surface features; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    1Bt3—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay; strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00747. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots
    2Bt4—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00748. Strata of silty material.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    3Bk1—89 to 132 centimeters (35.0 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00749. Strata of sandy material 5 cm thick—but not sampled because it has no lateral continuity.; common fine roots
    4Bk2—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 88P00750. few fine roots