IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ugyp
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995AZ003003
  • User Pedon ID: 95AZ003003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0606
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67619
  • 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: 31.8369446
  • Std. Longitude: -110.2444458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet east and 1700 feet south of NW corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise
  • MLRA: 41—Madrean Archipelago
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 31110-G2—Land, Arizona

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D.J.B., C.A.M.
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ugyp
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Gypsiorthids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/8/1995
  • 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: 5/8/1995 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    gypsic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—8

    8—152

    84—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

    1

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    1158

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    305

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; fine sandy loam; weak thin platy, and weak very fine granular structure; loose, loose, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04461
    By1—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent gypsum threads and 3 percent carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04462. filaments are gypsum or CaCO3
    By2—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 11 percent organic stains on faces of peds; 1 percent gypsum masses and 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified and 3 percent carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04463. filaments are gypsum or CaCO3
    Bky1—76 to 132 centimeters (29.9 to 52.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam, loamy sand; weak massive; loose, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 3 percent carbonate threads; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P04464. stratified sand and silt lenses. breaks out in plates 3 to 4 inches thick. filaments are gypsum or CaCO3.
    Bky2—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified and 1 percent gypsum masses and 3 percent carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 95P04465. filaments gypsum or CaCO3