IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LEA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NM025004
  • User Pedon ID: 93NM025004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993NM025004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0510
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65853
  • 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: 32.9983330
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3497238
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 36E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: Northwest 1/4 of southwest 1/4
  • Location Description: North of Lovington.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM025—Lea
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM025—Lea County, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Petrocalcic Paleustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LEA
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lea Loam
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Petrocalcic Paleustoll
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/30/1993 (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

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    GUTIE

    PLMU3

    PLMU3

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Gutierrezia

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    snakeweed

    tobosagrass

    tobosagrass

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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

    1

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    135

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03742
    Bt1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03743
    Btk1—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03744
    Btk2—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03745
    Bkm—66 centimeters (26.0 inches); fragments.