IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harvey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NM057005
  • User Pedon ID: 91NM057005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0337
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64576
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 35.0250015
  • Std. Longitude: -105.9166641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM057—Torrance
  • MLRA: 70—Pecos-Canadian Plains and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM674—Torrance Area, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ustollic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harvey
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ustollic Calciorthids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/1991 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—3

    3—9

    16—70

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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

    1

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    —

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    10

    279

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    11.7

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine and fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02069
    Bw1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine and fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02070
    Bw2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine and fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02071
    Bk1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); pink (5YR 7/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine and fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02072
    Bk2—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, bromthymol blue; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02073
    Bk3—91 to 178 centimeters (35.8 to 70.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), moist; cobbly sandy loam; massive; hard; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 92P02074