IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springerville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956AZ025005
  • User Pedon ID: S1956AZ025005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956AZ025005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3613
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39278
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 34.1589470
  • Std. Longitude: -112.1421204
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2-1/4 miles south and .55 mile east of Sunset Point Lookout. (Black Canyon area).
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ025—Yavapai
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ637—Yavapai County, Arizona, Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Springerville
  • PSC - 25 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1956
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1956 (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

    AGSM

    OPUNT

    OPUNT

    PLMU3

    PLMU3

    Agropyron smithii

    Opuntia

    Opuntia

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

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    pricklypear

    pricklypear

    tobosagrass

    tobosagrass

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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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    1018

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    315

    305

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    16.1

    26.7

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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; moderate medium platy structure; hard when dry, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27767. there is a soft crust 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick at the surface; few fine black spherical concretions 1/2 to 1 mm diameter
    A12—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; stony silty clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27768. few fine black spherical concretions 1/2 to 1 mm diameter
    C1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; strong medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basaltic-ash fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27769. few black spherical concretions 1/4 to 1 mm diameter; few hard weathered basalt pebbles and few quartz and quartzite pebbles
    C2—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; wedge parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27770. few black spherical concretions 1/4 to 1 mm diameter; few hard weathered basalt pebbles
    C3—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; 3 percent white (10YR 8/1) fine mottles; wedge parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds and 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27771. few black spherical concretions 1/2 to 1 mm diameter; patchy - phpvsfiid 187647; patchy - phpvsfiid 187647
    C4—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A27772. contains a few hard, weathered basalt pebbles and an occasional quartz or quartzite pebble; occasional black spherical concretions, 1/2 to 1 mm in diameter; patchy - phpvsfiid 187632; patchy - phpvsfiid 187632
    R—91 to 100 centimeters (35.8 to 39.4 inches); hard when dry; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27773. Hard, slightly weathered basalt