IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Angostura
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NM007001
  • User Pedon ID: 93NM007001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993NM007001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66196
  • 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: 36.2844429
  • Std. Longitude: -105.3263855
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet east and 2500 feet south from the northwest corner
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM007—Colfax
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM007—Colfax County, New Mexico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36105-C3—Osha Mountain, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Angostura
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Cryoboralfs
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    ABLA

    PAMY

    PIEN

    POTR

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Picea engelmannii

    Poa tracyi

    subalpine fir

    Oregon boxleaf

    Engelmann spruce

    Tracy's bluegrass

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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

    18

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    3182

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    70

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00033
    A—4 to 12 centimeters (1.6 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; weak medium platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00034
    Bt—12 to 22 centimeters (4.7 to 8.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; extremely stony sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00035. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180244; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180244
    BC—22 to 60 centimeters (8.7 to 23.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely stony coarse sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00036
    C1—60 to 113 centimeters (23.6 to 44.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; extremely stony loamy coarse sand; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00037. This horizon has structure of bedrock.
    C2—113 to 123 centimeters (44.5 to 48.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; extremely stony sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00038. This horizon has structure of bedrock.
    2C3—123 to 177 centimeters (48.4 to 69.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely channery sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 94P00039. This horizon has structure of bedrock.