IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mentone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NM015004
  • User Pedon ID: 91NM015004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991NM015004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P1050
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64087
  • 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: 32.8130569
  • Std. Longitude: -104.1372223
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM015—Eddy
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mentone
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Pachic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Slope Position: depression
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1991 (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

    HIMU2

    POAB

    TRAL2

    Hilaria mutica

    Poa abbreviata

    Tridens albescens

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    short bluegrass

    white tridens

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—94

    20—140

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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

    7

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    1117

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    270

    30

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; strong medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 5.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P06841. many fine to coarse roots throughout
    Btss1—20 to 76 centimeters (7.9 to 29.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores and distinct nonintersecting slickensides on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P06842. common fine to coarse roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 227590; continuous - phpvsfiid 227589; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 227590; continuous - phpvsfiid 227589
    Btss2—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores and distinct nonintersecting slickensides on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P06843. common fine and medium roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 227592; continuous - phpvsfiid 227591; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 227592; continuous - phpvsfiid 227591
    Bt—94 to 104 centimeters (37.0 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P06844. few fine and medium roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 227593; continuous - phpvsfiid 227593
    Btk—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine and medium roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 227594; continuous - phpvsfiid 227594