IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springerville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956AZ017032
  • User Pedon ID: S1956AZ017032
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956AZ017032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3612
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39277
  • 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: 34.1619453
  • Std. Longitude: -109.9672241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NE corner of the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: in Forest Service pasture. One mile north of Lakeside.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ017—Navajo

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 32
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Springerville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1956
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    BOGR2

    GUTIE

    JUNIP

    PASM

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Gutierrezia

    Juniperus

    Pascopyrum smithii

    blue grama

    blue grama

    snakeweed

    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; strong very fine granular structure; soft, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27762
    C1—5 to 43 centimeters (2.0 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), dry; clay; weak platy, and weak very coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very plastic; very slow permeability; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27763. many grass roots; very slowly permeable
    C2—42 to 76 centimeters (16.5 to 29.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry; clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27764. many slickensides 5 to 45 degrees angles
    C3CA—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), dry; clay; pink (5YR 8/3) and 1 percent white (5YR 8/1) coarse prominent mottles; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A27765
    R—109 to 150 centimeters (42.9 to 59.1 inches); fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27766. Basalt cobble and boulders that contain many vesicles ranging from 1/4 to 1/2 inch in diameter. Some of these vesicles contain calcium carbonate