IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canyada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NM039007
  • User Pedon ID: 88NM039007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988NM039007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0139
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60262
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.2861099
  • Std. Longitude: -107.4008331
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM039—Rio Arriba

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.J. Sokoll, D.A. Diekman, R.J. Ahrens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey over loamy, smectitic, mesic Ustertic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canyada
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canyada
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey over loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic Ustic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1988 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSP

    SAVE

    SIHY

    Agropyron spicatum

    Salix vestita

    Sitanion hystrix

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    rock willow

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—3

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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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    1983

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    1A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00758. few fine roots
    1Bw—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00759. Few fine stress cutans.; common fine roots
    1C1—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00760. Few fine stress cutans.; few fine roots; common medium roots
    2C2—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00761. few fine roots
    2C3—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loamy sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00762. Few thin silt loam strata.; few fine roots
    2C4—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loamy sand; massive; soft, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00763. few fine roots
    2C5—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; sand; massive; soft, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 88P00764. few fine roots