IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PARKELEI
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NM031002
  • User Pedon ID: 94NM031002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994NM031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0781
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66954
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 35.1583328
  • Std. Longitude: -108.8375015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet south and 500 feet east of the northwest corner
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35108-B7—Vanderwagen Draw, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Park
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PARKELEI
  • PSC - 4 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bosonoak
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Aridic Haplustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1994
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: fan terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 65-19
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSM

    ARTR2

    BOGR2

    EULA5

    GUSA2

    MUAR

    SIHY

    Agropyron smithii

    Artemisia tridentata

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Eurotia lanata

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Muhlenbergia arenacea

    Sitanion hystrix

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    big sagebrush

    blue grama

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    broom snakeweed

    ear muhly

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—5

    5—203

    13—203

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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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    2030

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    135

    330

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    10

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    11.1

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) broken face, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06120
    Bt—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine pores; prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06121. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177071; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 177071
    Btk1—13 to 71 centimeters (5.1 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; silty clay; 41 percent clay; strong medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 fine pores; prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fine and medium carbonate masses and fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06122. patchy - phpvsfiid 177072; patchy - phpvsfiid 177072
    Btk2—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores and distinct clay bridges between sand grains; fine and medium carbonate masses and fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06123
    Btk3—102 to 160 centimeters (40.2 to 63.0 inches); weak red (10R 5/4) broken face, weak red (10R 4/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores and distinct clay bridges between sand grains; fine and medium carbonate masses and fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06124
    Btk4—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); weak red (10R 5/4) broken face, weak red (10R 4/4) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and faint clay bridges between sand grains; fine and medium carbonate masses and fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06125