IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canez
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NM037011
  • User Pedon ID: 91NM037011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0539
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63581
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 35.2022209
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7822189
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM037—Quay
  • MLRA: 70—Pecos-Canadian Plains and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Ustollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canez
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canez
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Ustollic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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 - 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
    • 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

    3

    —

    —

    1234

    —

    135

    38

    —

    —

    29

    39

    19

    30

    40

    20

    —

    —

    —

    9156

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; sandy loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03113. few medium roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03114. few very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    Bt2—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03115. few very fine and fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    Bt3—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P03116. few very fine and fine roots throughout
    Btk1—56 to 97 centimeters (22.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; faint clay films between sand grains; 1 percent irregular carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P03117. Rock fragments in Btk1 are patchy concentrations; few carbonate concretions concentrations; few very fine and fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    2Btk2—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03118. few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    2Btk3—122 to 140 centimeters (48.0 to 55.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 11 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03119. common fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    2Btk4—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P03120. few fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous