IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VENZUNI
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NM031003
  • User Pedon ID: 93NM031003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993NM031003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0355
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66533
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 35.3405571
  • Std. Longitude: -108.2513885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 19
  • Location Description: McKinley County, New Mexico.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 36—Southwestern Plateaus, Mesas, and Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM692—McKinley County Area, New Mexico, McKinley County and Parts of Cibola and San Juan Counties

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Aridic Haplusterts
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - VENZUNI
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Venzuni
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Aridic Hapluste
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1993
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: fluvial terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49936
  • 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

    AGSM

    ATCA2

    BOGR2

    CHRYS9

    STRO4

    TECAI

    Agropyron smithii

    Atriplex canescens

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Chrysothamnus

    Streptopus roseus

    Tetradymia canescens var. inermis

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    fourwing saltbush

    blue grama

    rabbitbrush

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    0—18

    18—107

    107—191

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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

    3

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    2289

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    135

    381

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    9.4

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    10.6

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots; 3 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-sedimentary fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02190
    Bss1—18 to 56 centimeters (7.1 to 22.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 75 percent pressure faces; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02191
    Bss2—56 to 107 centimeters (22.0 to 42.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 75 percent pressure faces; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02192
    Bk1—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-sedimentary fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02193
    Bk2—142 to 191 centimeters (55.9 to 75.2 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2), dusky red (2.5YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed igneous-sedimentary fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, cresol red. Lab sample # 94P02194