IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PALOMAS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NM025005
  • User Pedon ID: 93NM025005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993NM025005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0511
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65854
  • 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: 32.8052788
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7636108
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17S
  • Range: 32E
  • Section: 28
  • Location Description: About 3.8 miles (3.3 km) south of Maljamar.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM025—Lea
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM025—Lea County, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Haplargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PALOMAS
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Palomas
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/30/1993
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: sandhills
  • 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

    ARFI2

    ARIST

    ARTEG

    GUTIE

    PROSO

    SPCR

    YUCCA

    YUCCA

    Artemisia filifolia

    Aristida

    Aristida ternipes var. gentilis

    Gutierrezia

    Prosopis

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Yucca

    Yucca

    sand sagebrush

    threeawn

    spidergrass

    snakeweed

    mesquite

    sand dropseed

    yucca

    yucca

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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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    1129

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    180

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    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03746
    A2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; fine sand; single grain, and massive; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03747
    Bt1—38 to 122 centimeters (15.0 to 48.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and single grain, and massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine to coarse roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P03748
    Bt2—122 to 132 centimeters (48.0 to 52.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 5/6), dry; sandy clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03749
    Bt3—132 to 155 centimeters (52.0 to 61.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 5/6), dry; sandy clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; very slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 93P03750
    Bk—155 to 183 centimeters (61.0 to 72.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 93P03751
    Bkm—183 centimeters (72.0 inches); fragments.