IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): QUARTELES
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97NM049007a
  • User Pedon ID: 97NM049007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 97NM049007a
  • User Site Association ID: Santa Fe Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0468
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10151
  • User Project ID: 2023 - SW-SAN - Multi-MLRA
  • Project Name: MLRA 36 - MLRA 42C - MLRA 35 - MLRA 48A - MIR Lab Data for Type Location Soil Samples
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 35.9144440
  • Std. Longitude: -106.0019455
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet north and 4650 feet east of the SW corner
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM049—Santa Fe
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM687—Santa Fe County Area, New Mexico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35106-H1—Espanola, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CDH and JVC.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - QUARTELES
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quarteles
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    JUMO

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Juniperus monosperma

    Indian ricegrass

    oneseed juniper

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    57 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    57—

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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

    32

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    1832

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    135

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; gravelly very fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak coarse platy parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02808
    2C1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly very fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02809. Vflisp of CaSO4 crystals.
    2C2—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; extremely gravelly very fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02810
    2Cr—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 97P02811. Soft interbedded micaceous siltstone and sandstone bedrock