IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENTMORE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999NM031002
  • User Pedon ID: 99NM031002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999NM031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0323
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11837
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 35.5994453
  • Std. Longitude: -108.6416702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: about 2100 feet west and 1400 feet north of the South East Corner
  • Location Description: about 5 miles of Gallup New Mexico.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 36A—Western Mesas, Plateaus and Basins (proposed)
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM692—McKinley County Area, New Mexico, McKinley County and Parts of Cibola and San Juan Counties

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mentmore
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ustic Paleargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/1999
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/1999 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    GUSA2

    GUSA2

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    blue grama

    broom snakeweed

    broom snakeweed

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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

    3

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    2085

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    90

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02332. Eff: eo
    Bw—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; clay loam; 36 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02333. Eff: eo; pores: 1, vf, irr
    Bt1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02334. Eff: evs; Pores: 1, vf, irr; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201930; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201930
    Bt2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; 2 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02335. Eff: evs; Pores: 2, vf, irr; few krotovinas sand coatings on ped faces.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201931; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 201931
    Bk1—61 to 112 centimeters (24.0 to 44.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02336. Eff: e; Pores: 1, vf, irr; CaCO3: 1 , vf, sm; pockets of finely stratified material.
    Bk2—112 to 157 centimeters (44.1 to 61.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02337. Eff: e; Pores: 1, vf, irr; CaCO3: 1, vf, sm; pockets of finely stratified material.
    By—157 to 178 centimeters (61.8 to 70.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 00P02338. Eff: eo; CaCO3: 2, vf, sm, sf, 94P; 3 inch strata 4 fsl.