IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springerville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956AZ025006
  • User Pedon ID: S1956AZ025006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956AZ025006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3614
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39279
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 34.2067223
  • Std. Longitude: -112.1171265
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.95 mile north and 0.3 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 #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Springerville
  • PSC - 25 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/1956
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1956 (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

    YUCCA

    Agropyron smithii

    Opuntia

    Opuntia

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Yucca

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    pricklypear

    pricklypear

    tobosagrass

    tobosagrass

    yucca

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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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    1006

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    0

    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 5/2), dry; stony silty clay; moderate medium platy parts to strong very fine and fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27774
    A12—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; stony silty clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27775
    AC—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 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 subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27776
    C1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27777
    C2—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 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; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 78 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27778. few fine black spherical concretions
    C3—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 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 roots; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basaltic-ash fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A27779. few fine black spherical concretions (less than 1 mm diameter); common hard, weathered basalt pebbles and stones; few quartz and quartzite pebbles
    R—86 to 100 centimeters (33.9 to 39.4 inches); hard when dry; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27780. Hard, slightly weathered olivine basalt