IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fortwingate
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NM031001
  • User Pedon ID: 94NM031001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994NM031001
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 8
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0780
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66953
  • Print Date: 4/18/2025

    • 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: 35.3480568
  • Std. Longitude: -108.5236130
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 16W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 1650 feet east and 750 feet south of the northwest corner
  • 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: 35108-C5—Upper Nutria, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Park
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, frigid Vertic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fortwingate
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fortwingate
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Mollic Eutroboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/1994
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: cuesta
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered limestone, unspecified with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 65-66
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ACMIO

    BLTR

    ERIOG

    FEAR2

    MUMO

    MUMO

    PIPO

    PIPOS

    POFE

    QUGAG

    SIHY

    Achillea millefolium var. occidentalis

    Blepharoneuron tricholepis

    Eriogonum

    Festuca arizonica

    Muhlenbergia montana

    Muhlenbergia montana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum

    Poa fendleriana

    Quercus gambelii var. gambelii

    Sitanion hystrix

    western yarrow

    pine dropseed

    buckwheat

    Arizona fescue

    mountain muhly

    mountain muhly

    ponderosa pine

    ponderosa pine

    muttongrass

    Gambel oak

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

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    8—64

    64—64

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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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    2353

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    90

    457

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    9.4

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    10.6

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06115. mat of pine needles, oak leaves, and grass.
    A—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) rubbed, dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) broken face, dry; loam; 15 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots; 2 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06116
    Bt1—11 to 23 centimeters (4.3 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) rubbed, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) broken face, dry; clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 30 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06117. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176765; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176765
    Bt2—23 to 67 centimeters (9.1 to 26.4 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) rubbed, reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face, dry; clay; 45 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 1 percent nonintersecting slickensides and 10 percent pressure faces and 75 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06118. patchy - phpvsfiid 176766; patchy - phpvsfiid 176766
    2R—67 to 73 centimeters (26.4 to 28.7 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 94P06119. San Andreas limestone-the top 2" is weathered sandstone.