IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Haplocambids
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09AF006006
  • User Pedon ID: S09AF006006
  • User Site Association ID: Afghanistan
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0397
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24468
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 32.3531944
  • Std. Longitude: 62.0631944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Farah city in Farah Province
  • Country: AF—Afghanistan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jason Nemecek, Ed Tallyn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, hyperthermic Sodic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Haplocambids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Typic Haplocambids
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Anthropogenic Feature: conservation terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/22/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    2Bkn1

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    2Bkn1

    2Bkn2

    2Bkn2

    2Bkn2

    2Bknq

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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

    Anp

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    Anp

    Bwn1

    Bwn1

    Bwn1

    2Bwn2

    2Bwn2

    2Bwn2

    2Bkn1

    2Bkn1

    2Bkn1

    2Bkn2

    2Bkn2

    2Bkn2

    2Bknq

    2Bknq

    2Bknq

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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 %

    Anp

    Anp

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    Bwn1

    Bwn1

    Bwn1

    2Bwn2

    2Bwn2

    2Bwn2

    2Bkn1

    2Bkn1

    2Bkn1

    2Bkn2

    2Bkn2

    2Bkn2

    2Bknq

    2Bknq

    2Bknq

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    76

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    salt accumulations

    durinodes

    0—12

    32—

    32—76

    76—200

    76—112

    167—200

    —12—

    —-

    —44—

    —124—

    —36—

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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
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    Anp—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 36 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 20.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02109; observed in trench
    Bwn1—12 to 32 centimeters (4.7 to 12.6 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; 19 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate thin platy parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, very sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02110; observed in trench
    2Bwn2—32 to 76 centimeters (12.6 to 29.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; 13 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 coarse high-continuity tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02111; observed in trench
    2Bkn1—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; 17 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 0.1 very coarse tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02112; observed in trench
    2Bkn2—112 to 167 centimeters (44.1 to 65.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 18 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.3 medium roots throughout; 10.0 very fine vesicular and 20.0 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout and 1 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02113; observed in trench
    2Bknq—167 to 200 centimeters (65.7 to 78.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 27 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak thin platy parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 very fine vesicular and 10.0 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout and 5 percent medium spherical strongly coherent cemented durinodes throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 09N02114; observed in trench