IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springerville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956AZ005005
  • User Pedon ID: S1956AZ005005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956AZ005005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3592
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39257
  • 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: 35.0052795
  • Std. Longitude: -111.3919449
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: In the NW 1/4 NE 1/4
  • Location Description: About 1 mile southeast of Ashurst Lake. About 15 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 #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Springerville
  • PSC - 25 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1956
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/1956 (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

    BOGR2

    BOGR2

    CIRSI

    GUTIE

    LYCUR

    LYCUR

    MUTO2

    MUTO2

    PASM

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Cirsium

    Gutierrezia

    Lycurus

    Lycurus

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Pascopyrum smithii

    blue grama

    blue grama

    thistle

    snakeweed

    wolfstail

    wolfstail

    ring muhly

    ring muhly

    western wheatgrass

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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

    1

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    2195

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    180

    559

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    7.8

    18.3

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; stony silty clay; strong very fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27644
    A12—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; stony silty clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27645. few black spherical concretions less than 1 mm in diameter
    A13—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; strong very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and weak very fine and fine granular structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27646. few black spherical concretions less than 1 mm in diameter
    C1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 1 percent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27647. few black spherical concretions from 1 to 2 mm in diameter; few hard white lime concretions 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter
    C2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; coarse wedge parts to moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic); 3 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 1 percent weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27648. slickensides oriented at angles of 20 to 35 degrees with the horizontal; common black spherical concretions 1 to 2 mm in diameter; few to common hard white lime concretions 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter
    C3CA—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; 3 percent white (10YR 8/1) fine and medium mottles; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films; 3 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A27649. common soft and semihard lime concretions 1/4 to 3/4 inch in diameter; few roots, forming a mat on the upper surface of the underlying rock; patchy - phpvsfiid 187792; patchy - phpvsfiid 187792
    R—79 to 100 centimeters (31.1 to 39.4 inches); hard when dry; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27650. Hard, weathered, dark gray olivine basalt; slightly magnetic