IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Springerville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956AZ025008
  • User Pedon ID: S1956AZ025008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956AZ025008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3616
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39281
  • 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: 34.5833321
  • Std. Longitude: -112.5833359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 45 feet east of the center of US Highway 89 at a point 1.55 miles north of Milepost 351. About 15 miles south of Ash Fork.
  • 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 #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Springerville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/1956
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: plateau
  • Runoff: low
  • 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

    ARIST

    ARIST

    BOGR2

    BOGR2

    JUNIP

    MUTO2

    MUTO2

    PLMU3

    PLMU3

    SPCR

    SPCR

    Aristida

    Aristida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Juniperus

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    threeawn

    threeawn

    blue grama

    blue grama

    juniper

    ring muhly

    ring muhly

    tobosagrass

    tobosagrass

    sand dropseed

    sand dropseed

    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

    1463

    90

    381

    12.2

    23.3

    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; very stony silty clay; strong very fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27789
    A12—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; very stony silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27790
    C1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; silty clay; coarse wedge parts to strong coarse 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 # 40A27791
    C2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; silty clay; coarse wedge parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds and 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27792. patchy - phpvsfiid 196954; patchy - phpvsfiid 196954
    C3—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27793. patchy - phpvsfiid 196956; patchy - phpvsfiid 196956
    C4—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; silty clay; medium wedge parts to 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); 1 percent fine white (10YR 8/1) carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27794. contains a few fine white hard carbonate concretions from 1 to 2 mm in diameter; patchy - phpvsfiid 196957; patchy - phpvsfiid 196957
    C5CA—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), dry; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; 75 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 21 percent fine weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A27795. with numerous fine white specks (less than 1 mm) due to hard carbonate concretions; with many slickensides about 1 inch apart, producing thick, crude plates
    R—114 to 150 centimeters (44.9 to 59.1 inches); hard when dry; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27796. Hard, weathered, olivine basalt