IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Haplocalcids
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09AF006007
  • User Pedon ID: S09AF006007
  • User Site Association ID: Afghanistan
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0398
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24469
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 32.3811111
  • Std. Longitude: 61.9480278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Kohe Asya
  • Country: AF—Afghanistan

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jason Nemecek, Ed Tallyn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, hyperthermic Aquic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Haplocalcids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, hyperthermic Aquic Haplargids
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 11 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed alluvium
  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: fan skirt
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 90
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/24/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ayz

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    49

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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

    Ayz

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    Ayz

    Btnz

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    Btknz

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    Btknz

    Bknz

    Bknz

    Bknz

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    11

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    49

    49

    49

    83

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    49

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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 %

    Ayz

    Ayz

    Ayz

    Btnz

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    Btknz

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    49

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    83

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    secondary carbonates

    0—11

    11—83

    49—100

    49—100

    49—100

    —11—

    —72—

    —51—

    —51—

    —51—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    1/24/2009

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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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    Ayz—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; loam; 29 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent coarse irregular white (10YR 8/1), dry, salt masses at top of horizon and 2 percent fine irregular salt, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02115; dry when described; observed in trench
    Btnz—11 to 49 centimeters (4.3 to 19.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; silt loam; 19 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 20.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular and 1.0 coarse high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular salt masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02116; slightly moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 445376; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 445376
    Btknz—49 to 83 centimeters (19.3 to 32.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; silt loam; 33 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm by carbonates, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.1 medium high-continuity dendritic tubular and 1.0 coarse high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine irregular masses of reduced iron; 5 percent fine threadlike silica masses throughout and 4 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses throughout and 1 percent fine salt masses throughout and 2 percent medium irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02117; slightly moist when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 445377; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 445377
    Bknz—83 to 100 centimeters (32.7 to 39.4 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silt loam; 37 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 1.0 coarse high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine irregular salt, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 09N02118; slightly moist when described; observed in trench