IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tsoodzil
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NM031006
  • User Pedon ID: 93NM031006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993NM031006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0358
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66536
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 35.3369446
  • Std. Longitude: -107.3366699
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: McKinley County - Marquez Wildlife Area, about 2.5 miles NW of Marquez, NM.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 39—Mogollon Transition North
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM692—McKinley County Area, New Mexico, McKinley County and Parts of Cibola and San Juan Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35107-C3—Marquez, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, frigid Vertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tsoodzil
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tsoodzil
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Abruptic Pachic Argiboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/2/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: lava plateau
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/2/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49719
  • 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

    AGCR

    FEAR2

    MUMO

    PIPO

    QUGA

    SIHY

    Agropyron cristatum

    Festuca arizonica

    Muhlenbergia montana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Quercus gambelii

    Sitanion hystrix

    crested wheatgrass

    Arizona fescue

    mountain muhly

    ponderosa pine

    Gambel oak

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—53

    10—178

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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

    11

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    2518

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    135

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    Bt—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; strong fine and medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02209
    Btss1—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), dry; clay; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 75 percent nonintersecting slickensides and 75 percent pressure faces; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 94P02210