IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Yelives
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992NM031006
  • User Pedon ID: 92NM031006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992NM031006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0292
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65635
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 35.5463905
  • Std. Longitude: -107.4708328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 9000 feet N and 900 feet W of the SE corner
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 37—San Juan River Valley Mesas and Plateaus
  • 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-E4—Mesa Cortada, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Park
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Yelives
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 37 percent of Percent clay in


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 497-44
  • 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

    ATOB

    SAVE3

    SPAI

    Atriplex obovata

    Sambucus velutina

    Sporobolus airoides

    mound saltbush

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    alkali sacaton

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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

    2

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    2012

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    315

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    Cn1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay loam; strong thick platy structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Cn2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay; moderate fine and medium prismatic, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02331
    Cn3—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay; weak thick platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02332
    Cnz1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine carbonate masses and 3 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02333
    2Cnz2—38 to 86 centimeters (15.0 to 33.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent fine carbonate masses and 1 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02334
    2Cnz3—86 to 142 centimeters (33.9 to 55.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent fine carbonate masses and 1 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02335
    2Cnz4—142 to 183 centimeters (55.9 to 72.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loamy fine sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 93P02336