IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springerville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956AZ017031
  • User Pedon ID: S1956AZ017031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956AZ017031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3611
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39276
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 34.1766663
  • Std. Longitude: -109.9672241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: Arizona NE corner of the NW 1/4 of SW 1/4
  • Location Description: 2 miles north of Lakeside.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ017—Navajo

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Springerville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1956
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1956 (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

    JUNIP

    PASM

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Juniperus

    Pascopyrum smithii

    blue grama

    blue grama

    juniper

    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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    2042

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    45

    508

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    8.3

    19.4

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; clay; moderate very fine granular structure; loose, very friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27757
    C1—5 to 36 centimeters (2.0 to 14.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), dry; clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; extremely firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27758
    C2—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), dry; clay; strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27759. many slickensides on oblique angles ranging from a 5 to 45 degrees angle
    C3—71 to 117 centimeters (28.0 to 46.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; cobbly clay; white (7.5YR 8/1) and 1 percent white (10YR 8/1) prominent mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A27760. cobbly clay with an estimated 20 percent of rounded basalt cobbles that range from 4 to 6 inches in diameter
    R—117 to 125 centimeters (46.1 to 49.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A27761. Bed of hard basalt boulders; close to solid basalt rock