IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Montoya
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NM037007
  • User Pedon ID: 91NM037007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0535
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63577
  • 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: 36.1372223
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6477814
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM037—Quay
  • MLRA: 70—Pecos-Canadian Plains and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, thermic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Montoya
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montoya
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Mollic Torrert
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    —

    —

    1225

    —

    0

    38

    —

    —

    29

    39

    19

    30

    40

    20

    —

    —

    —

    9156

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P03099. Ap structureless due to cultivation; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Cr—30 to 160 centimeters (11.8 to 63.0 inches); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P03100. Cr is weathered, interbedded shale and sand stone; effervescence is continuous