IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NM037009
  • User Pedon ID: 91NM037009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0537
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63579
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 35.1022224
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6500015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM037—Quay
  • MLRA: 70—Pecos-Canadian Plains and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quay
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Ustochreptic Calciorthi
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    —

    —

    1244

    —

    0

    38

    —

    —

    29

    39

    19

    30

    40

    20

    —

    —

    —

    9156

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; sandy clay loam; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate concretions and 1 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P03105. few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    Bw—20 to 61 centimeters (7.9 to 24.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry; sandy clay loam; massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate concretions and 1 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P03106. few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    CR—61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dry; fine sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate concretions and 1 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P03107. few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; effervescence is continuous