IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aerobee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008NM688090
  • User Pedon ID: S08NM035004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008NM688090
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0190
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23970
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 33.1093178
  • Std. Longitude: -106.3357468
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 S
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1899 feet east and 3446 feet south of the NW corner of
  • Location Description: Otero County, New Mexico. Approximately 8.86 miles east and 3.58 miles south of the junction of Range Roads 6 and 7, Rhodes Canyon.
  • Map Unit: 9—Astrobee-Lark association, 0 to 35 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: Kraimer,Bauchert,Eldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Leptic Haplogypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aerobee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Leptic Haplogypsids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gypsiferous sandy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: interdune
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/29/2008 (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
    • 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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    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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    2Cy

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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

    Ay

    By1

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    2Cy

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    EPHED

    SPNE

    Ephedra

    Sporobolus nealleyi

    jointfir

    gyp dropseed

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

    ochric epipedon

    gypsic horizon

    0—5

    5—200

    —5—

    —195—
    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

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    17.8

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    Ay—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine platy, and moderate medium platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 25.0 fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter, saturated paste; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01271; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    By1—5 to 40 centimeters (2.0 to 15.7 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; loam; 21 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 medium roots throughout; 5.0 medium tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystal clusters with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter, saturated paste; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01272; dry when described;
    By2—40 to 80 centimeters (15.7 to 31.5 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; 20 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 3 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystal clusters with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter, saturated paste; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01273; dry when described;
    By3—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 10 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystal clusters with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01274; dry when described;
    By4—110 to 150 centimeters (43.3 to 59.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 11.0 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 3 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystal clusters with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 09N01275; dry when described;
    2Cy—150 to 200 centimeters (59.1 to 78.7 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed, moist; gypsiferous loamy sand; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 09N01276; dry when described;