IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crystalgyp
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995AZ003002
  • User Pedon ID: 95AZ003002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1995AZ003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0605
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67618
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 31.8608341
  • Std. Longitude: -110.2536087
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 3180 feet east and 400 feet south of NW corner
  • Location Description: NE corner of El Paso gas pipeline and Quentin Miller Ranch by Apache PD plant.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise
  • MLRA: 41—Madrean Archipelago
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31110-G3—McGrew Spring, Arizona

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crystalgyp
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, gypsic Typic Gypsiorthids
  • PSC - 25 to 76 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
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2RA
  • 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

    BOER4

    EPVI

    EPVI

    MUPU2

    MUPU2

    OPLE

    OPUNT

    OPUNT

    Agropyron smithii

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Ephedra viridis

    Ephedra viridis

    Muhlenbergia pungens

    Muhlenbergia pungens

    Opuntia leptocaulis

    Opuntia

    Opuntia

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    black grama

    mormon tea

    mormon tea

    sandhill muhly

    sandhill muhly

    Christmas cactus

    pricklypear

    pricklypear

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

    ochric epipedon

    gypsic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—3

    3—76

    76—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

    2

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    1166

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    135

    279

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy loam; weak thin platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 21 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04456. black lichen on surface
    By—3 to 25 centimeters (1.2 to 9.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04457
    Cy1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent gypsum threads and 3 percent gypsum masses and 21 percent fine and medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P04458. filaments soft & hard mass crystals
    Cy2—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots top of horizon; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 21 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 21 percent fine gypsum masses and 3 percent fine gypsum threads; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04459. crystals soft & hard masses filament
    Cr—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; hard; 75 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 95P04460. Gypsiferous Sandstone