IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tres Hermanos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NM023002
  • User Pedon ID: 91NM023002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63052
  • 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: 32.3436127
  • Std. Longitude: -108.6802750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM023—Hidalgo
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Montoya
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tres Hermanos
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tres Hermanos
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1991
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1991 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—10

    10—102

    137—152

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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

    2

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    —

    1286

    —

    45

    25

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    —

    16

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; gravelly clay loam; strong fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00027; dry when described;. effervescence is continuous
    Bt—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00028; dry when described;. few fine carbonate threads concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 226084; continuous - phpvsfiid 226084
    Btk1—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent fine irregular carbonate threads and 11 percent medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00029; dry when described;. common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine carbonate threads concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 226085; continuous - phpvsfiid 226085
    Btk2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent fine irregular carbonate threads and 11 percent medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00031; dry when described;. common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine carbonate threads concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots in cracks; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 226086; continuous - phpvsfiid 226086
    Bk1—102 to 137 centimeters (40.2 to 53.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dry; clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P00031; dry when described;. few very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    Bk2—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); pink (5YR 7/4), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent very coarse and extremely coarse irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P00032; dry when described;. many very coarse and extremely coarse soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine roots; effervescence is continuous