IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tsoodzil
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992NM031003
  • User Pedon ID: 92NM031003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992NM031003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0860
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65100
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 35.3369446
  • Std. Longitude: -107.3366699
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Marquez Wildlife Area. About 2.5 miles NE of Marquez, NM.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 39—Mogollon Transition North
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM692—McKinley County Area, New Mexico, McKinley County and Parts of Cibola and San Juan Counties

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Vertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tsoodzil
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tsoodzil
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Argiboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGCRP8

    FEAR2

    MUMO

    PIPO

    QUGA

    SIHY

    Agropyron cristatum ssp. pectinatum

    Festuca arizonica

    Muhlenbergia montana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Quercus gambelii

    Sitanion hystrix

    crested wheatgrass

    Arizona fescue

    mountain muhly

    ponderosa pine

    Gambel oak

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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

    11

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    2518

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    135

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P05322
    Bt—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; clay; 42 percent clay; strong fine and medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05323
    Btss1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), dry; clay; 55 percent clay; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 75 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 75 percent pressure faces; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 92P05324. slickensides are tilted 30 degrees
    Btss2—53 to 117 centimeters (20.9 to 46.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; clay; 55 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; on rock fragments and 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 75 percent pressure faces and 75 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P05325. slickensides are tilted 30 degrees
    Btss3—117 to 178 centimeters (46.1 to 70.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry; clay; 55 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; on rock fragments and 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 10 percent pressure faces and 75 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 92P05326