IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monue
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: AZ713-TUD6100-Monue-GA0069
  • User Pedon ID: AZ713-TUD6100-Monue-GA0069
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0586
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24899
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 36.4943047
  • Std. Longitude: -109.4137497
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Round Rock Farms
  • Map Unit: 33—Nakai very fine sandy loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ713—Chinle Area, Parts of Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona, and San Juan County, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brian McMullen and Bill Svetlik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Monue
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monue
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from sandstone and/or eolian sands derived from sandstone
  • Landform: valley
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone and shale
  • Geology: Chinle formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 4.00 percent nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Bk

    109

    173

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Bk

    109

    173

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Bk

    109

    173

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    ec meter, saturated paste

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    5

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—109

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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

    152

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    1682.5

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    0

    203

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    150

    13

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    14

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; 52 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak medium platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 micro roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 medium irregular and 2.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N02510; observed in pit, small
    Bw—13 to 74 centimeters (5.1 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; 51 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 1.0 medium dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N02511; observed in pit, small
    Bn—74 to 109 centimeters (29.1 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 7 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N02512; observed in pit, small
    Bk—109 to 173 centimeters (42.9 to 68.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 5 percent fine carbonate nodules; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N02513; observed in pit, small