IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clovis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NM057002
  • User Pedon ID: 94NM057002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0785
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66958
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 34.7986107
  • Std. Longitude: -105.6972198
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 225 feet west and 200 feet south of northeast corner
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM057—Torrance
  • MLRA: 70—Pecos-Canadian Plains and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM674—Torrance Area, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clovis
  • PSC - 37 to 87 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Klovis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ustic Haplargid
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/1994
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: fan terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/18/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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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    1989

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    225

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06145
    Bt1—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on nodules; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06146. patchy - phpvsfiid 177068; patchy - phpvsfiid 177068
    Bt2—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, dry; clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent faint clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06147. patchy - phpvsfiid 177069; patchy - phpvsfiid 177069
    Btk1—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films; 3 percent medium carbonate masses; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06148. patchy - phpvsfiid 177070; patchy - phpvsfiid 177070
    Btk2—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on nodules; 1 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06149. patchy - phpvsfiid 177079; patchy - phpvsfiid 177079
    Bk—124 to 157 centimeters (48.8 to 61.8 inches); 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, 7.5YR (7.5YR/),, dry; fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 94P06150