IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): GISH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999NM031003
  • User Pedon ID: 99NM031003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999NM031003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0324
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11838
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 35.5977783
  • Std. Longitude: -108.6436081
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: about 2600 feet west and 900 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 5 miles north east 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35108-E6—Gallup East, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gish
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Haplocambid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/1999
  • 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: 9/9/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 65-38
  • 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

    GUSA2

    GUSA2

    PASM

    PASM

    SARCO

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sarcobatus

    broom snakeweed

    broom snakeweed

    western wheatgrass

    western wheatgrass

    greasewood

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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 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; clay loam; 35 percent clay; strong very fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02339. Eff: eo
    Bw—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; clay; 40 percent clay; strong very fine and fine, and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02340. Eff: eo; Pores: 1, vf, irr; sand coatings fsint pressure faces.
    Bky1—33 to 69 centimeters (13.0 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; 42 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P02341. Eff: evs; Pores: 1, vf, irr; CaCO3: C, 1, sm, 9YP, F, 1, carb, sm.
    Bky2—69 to 140 centimeters (27.2 to 55.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dry; clay; 45 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02342. Eff: evs; Pores: 1, vf, irr; CaCO3: C, 1, sm (g), f, 1, sm (c); few pressure faces.
    Bky3—140 to 163 centimeters (55.1 to 64.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; 33 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02343. Eff: evs; Pores: 1, vf, irr; CaCO3: f, 1, sm, carb , 1 vf, mg; few, very fine steele frags.
    Bky4—163 to 178 centimeters (64.2 to 70.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; 40 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P02344. Eff: evs; CaCO3: f, 1, sm, (carb) f lsm (gyp).