IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amcec
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992NM031001
  • User Pedon ID: 92NM031001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992NM031001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0850
  • 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: 35.3486099
  • Std. Longitude: -107.3447189
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 3.3 miles NE of Marquez, NM.
  • Map Unit: 435—Tsoodzil-Amcec association, 5 to 50 percent slopes
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 39—Mogollon Transition North
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM692—McKinley County Area, New Mexico, McKinley County and Parts of Cibola and San Juan Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35107-C3—Marquez, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitrandic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amcec
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Apark
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    FEAR2

    GUSA2

    KOCR

    MUMO

    QUGA

    RHUS

    SIHY

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Festuca arizonica

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Koeleria cristata

    Muhlenbergia montana

    Quercus gambelii

    Rhus

    Sitanion hystrix

    blue grama

    Arizona fescue

    broom snakeweed

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    mountain muhly

    Gambel oak

    sumac

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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

    16

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    2621

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; extremely gravelly loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 80 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05248
    Bt—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05249
    Btk1—41 to 99 centimeters (16.1 to 39.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 30 percent clay films; 6 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 85 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05250
    Btk2—99 to 135 centimeters (39.0 to 53.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 8 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 30 percent clay films; carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 80 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 92P05251
    C—135 to 178 centimeters (53.1 to 70.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 10 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; carbonate concretions; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 92P05252