IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cypher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NM007002
  • User Pedon ID: 93NM007002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993NM007002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66197
  • 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: 36.6919441
  • Std. Longitude: -105.3352814
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet south and 600 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: projected location.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM007—Colfax
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM007—Colfax County, New Mexico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36105-F3—Red River Pass, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Lithic Ustochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cypher
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Lithic Ustochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 47 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/1993 (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

    ANTEN

    Antennaria

    pussytoes

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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

    40

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    2950

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    225

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00040
    A—3 to 9 centimeters (1.2 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00041
    Bw1—9 to 21 centimeters (3.5 to 8.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00042
    Bw2—21 to 50 centimeters (8.3 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 94P00043
    R—50 to 3 centimeters (19.7 to 1.2 inches); fragments; noneffervescent.