IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springerville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956AZ025007
  • User Pedon ID: S1956AZ025007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956AZ025007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3615
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39280
  • 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: 35.0152779
  • Std. Longitude: -112.3850021
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 50 feet west of the center of US Highway 89 at a point 6/10 mile south of Milepost 350 (14.8 mile south of the junction of US Highways 89 and 66). About 16 miles south of Ash Fork.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ025—Yavapai
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ637—Yavapai County, Arizona, Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Springerville
  • PSC - 25 to 99 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/1956
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • 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: 9/18/1956 (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

    GUTIE

    JUNIP

    MUTO2

    MUTO2

    OPUNT

    OPUNT

    PLMU3

    PLMU3

    Gutierrezia

    Juniperus

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Opuntia

    Opuntia

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

    snakeweed

    juniper

    ring muhly

    ring muhly

    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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    1433

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    90

    381

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    12.2

    23.3

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    Ashfork

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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; very stony silty clay; strong very fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27781. stones are hard basalt fragments; most of the stones are sharply angular;
    A12—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; stony silty clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27782. no clay films;
    C1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; silty clay; medium wedge parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27783
    C2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; silty clay; medium wedge parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27784. common light-gray weathered basalt pebbles 1 to 5 mm in diameter; the lime in disseminated form
    C3—38 to 63 centimeters (15.0 to 24.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; silty clay; 1 percent white (10YR 8/1) fine mottles; coarse wedge parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27785. few black spherical concretions less than 1/2 mm diameter; common light gray and white spots 1 to 5 mm diameter due to weathered basalt grains
    C4—63 to 89 centimeters (24.8 to 35.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; silty clay; 1 percent white (10YR 8/1) fine mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds and 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27786. appears to have few thin patchy clay films on some vertical surfaces; contains scattered hard, weathered basalt stones
    C5CA—89 to 99 centimeters (35.0 to 39.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; stony silty clay; 3 percent pink (5YR 8/3) fine mottles; massive; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; slickensides (pedogenic) and 75 percent clay films; carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A27787. many shiny surfaces that many be clay films but are probably slickensides or pressure surfaces; some carbonate concretions are as large as 5/8 inches, but these are soft and chalky
    R—99 to 150 centimeters (39.0 to 59.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A27788. Hard, slightly weathered olivine basalt