IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Contention
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995AZ003001
  • User Pedon ID: 95AZ003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0604
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67617
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 31.8594437
  • Std. Longitude: -110.2530594
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: about 3370 feet east and 800 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: North east corner on El Paso Gaspipe Rd. Qument Miller Ranch
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31110-G3—McGrew Spring, Arizona

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DJB, CAM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Gypsitorrerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Contention
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Typic Gypsitorrerts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1995
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2RA4
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    gypsic horizon

    0—8

    28—152

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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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    1170

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    315

    305

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; loose, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04451
    Bky1—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent pressure faces; 3 percent fine gypsum masses throughout and 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04452
    Bky2—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; clay; strong medium angular blocky, and weak medium wedge structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and 3 percent pressure faces; 1 percent carbonate masses and 1 percent fine gypsum masses between peds and 3 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified between peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04453
    Bssky1—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky, and weak fine and medium wedge structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent pressure faces and 21 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent carbonate masses and 1 percent fine gypsum masses between peds and 3 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified between peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04454. 21-60" * roots matted between peds
    Bssky2—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry; clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky, and weak medium wedge structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 21 percent pressure faces and 21 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1) manganese or iron-manganese stains and 21 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04455. 21-60" * roots matted between peds.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183355; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195066; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195067; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 183355; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195066; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195067