IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springerville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956AZ005003
  • User Pedon ID: S1956AZ005003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956AZ005003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3590
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39255
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 35.0294456
  • Std. Longitude: -111.4347229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: In NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 1-1/2 miles east of Mormon Lake highway, along road to Ashurst Lake. About 14 miles southeast of Flagstaff.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ005—Coconino

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Springerville
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/19/1956
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plateau
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/19/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CIRSI

    GUTIE

    OPUNT

    OPUNT

    TARAX

    Cirsium

    Gutierrezia

    Opuntia

    Opuntia

    Taraxacum

    thistle

    snakeweed

    pricklypear

    pricklypear

    dandelion

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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

    2

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    2176

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    315

    559

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    7.8

    18.3

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay; strong very fine granular, and weak medium platy parts to strong very fine granular structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27628
    A12—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate very fine granular structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27629
    A13—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay; strong very coarse prismatic, and very coarse wedge structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27630. few black spherical concretions 1 to 2 mm in diameter
    A14—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay; moderate very coarse prismatic, and very coarse wedge parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27631. few black spherical concretions 1 to 2 mm in diameter
    C1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay; weak very coarse prismatic, and wedge parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27632. few black spherical concretions 1 to 2 mm in diameter
    C2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay; massive, and weak coarse wedge; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A27633. few black spherical concretions 1 to 2 mm in diameter
    R—71 to 100 centimeters (28.0 to 39.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A27634. Dark gray, hard, porous, weathered olivine basalt. Many of the olivine crystals have weathered to ochreous colors. Slightly magnetic. Flecked with white calcium carbonate