IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PORTALES
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NM025003
  • User Pedon ID: 93NM025003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993NM025003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0509
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65852
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 33.0755539
  • Std. Longitude: -103.0713882
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 38E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet west and 2400 from the southwest corner, 1/2 mile west of state line, 1/2 mile south of northeast corner
  • Location Description: 1/2 mile west of state line, 1/2 mile south of northeast corner of Section 26.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM025—Lea
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM025—Lea County, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Aridic Calciustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PORTALES
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Portales Loam
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Aridic Calciustoll
  • Classificaton Date - 3/29/1993
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/29/1993 (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

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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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

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    1144

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    180

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03737
    Ap2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03738
    Bk1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03739
    Bk2—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03740
    Bk3—74 to 127 centimeters (29.1 to 50.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 93P03741
    Cm—127 centimeters (50.0 inches); fragments.