IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lark
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008NM688087
  • User Pedon ID: S08NM035002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0188
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23968
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 33.2018890
  • Std. Longitude: -106.4711914
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sierra County, New Mexico. Approximately 2.19 miles north and 1.34 miles east of junction of Range Roads 6 and 7.
  • Map Unit: 56—Mimbres-Chutum-Ybar complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM035—Otero
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM688—White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Parts of Dona Ana, Lincoln, Otero, Sierra and Socorro Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cates
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Gypsic, superactive, thermic Typic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lark
  • Taxonomic Class - Gypsic, superactive, thermic Typic Torripsamments
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: toeslopes fan piedmont
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2008 (entry creation 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
    • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ay

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    Cy1

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    Cy2

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    Cy3

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    70

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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

    Ay

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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 %

    Ay

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    Cy1

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    Cy2

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    Cy3

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    70

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    130

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    130

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    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—30

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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

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    Ay—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); white (10YR 8/1) broken face, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face, moist; gypsiferous sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 95 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01261; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Cy1—30 to 70 centimeters (11.8 to 27.6 inches); white (10YR 8/1) broken face, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) broken face, moist; gypsiferous sand; single grain; loose, loose, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 95 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01262; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Cy2—70 to 130 centimeters (27.6 to 51.2 inches); white (10YR 8/1) broken face, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) broken face, moist; gypsiferous sand; single grain; loose, loose, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 95 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter, saturated paste; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01263; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Cy3—130 to 200 centimeters (51.2 to 78.7 inches); white (10YR 8/1) broken face, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) broken face, moist; gypsiferous sand; single grain; loose, loose, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 95 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 09N01264; dry when described; observed in pit, small