IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharvana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S04NM041001
  • User Pedon ID: S04NM041001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0328
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16751
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 34.2599449
  • Std. Longitude: -103.5920868
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 32E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM041—Roosevelt
  • MLRA: 77D—Southern High Plains, Southwestern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34103-C5—Melrose SE, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T.C., D.K., K.A., C.B., B.A., B.M., S.R.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharvana
  • PSC - 16 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharvana
  • Classificaton Date - 12/16/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: EOLIAN SEDIMENTS
  • Landscape: plains
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/16/2004 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 45
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    41 - 92

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—16

    16—41

    41—92

    92—203

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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

    0.5

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    1265

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 13.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01853; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—8 to 16 centimeters (3.1 to 6.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 12.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01854; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—16 to 31 centimeters (6.3 to 12.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 11.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01855; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821317; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821317
    Bt2—31 to 41 centimeters (12.2 to 16.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 12.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 40 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01856; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821318; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 821318
    Bkkm—41 to 92 centimeters (16.1 to 36.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/3), pink (7.5YR 8/3), moist; cemented material; strong massive; extremely hard, extremely firm; extremely high excavation difficulty; 90 percent prominent indurated cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01857; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkk1—92 to 125 centimeters (36.2 to 49.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; extremely paragravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; high excavation difficulty; 80 percent prominent carbonate coats on nodules; 62 percent coarse distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N01858; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 821319; continuous - phpvsfiid 821319
    Bkk2—125 to 203 centimeters (49.2 to 79.9 inches); white (7.5YR 8/1), white (7.5YR 8/1), moist; extremely paragravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; high excavation difficulty; 90 percent prominent carbonate coats on nodules; 62 percent very coarse distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 05N01859; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 821320; continuous - phpvsfiid 821320