IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pastura
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959AZ025001
  • User Pedon ID: S1959AZ025001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959AZ025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3565
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39230
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 34.9075012
  • Std. Longitude: -112.4622192
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 325 feet north of Milepost 339 in NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 1.5 miles north of Paulden on west side of Highway 89.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ025—Yavapai
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ637—Yavapai County, Arizona, Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Milo James
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pastura
  • PSC - 25 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/1959
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/1959 (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

    BOER4

    GUTIE

    MUTO2

    MUTO2

    PLANT

    SPCR

    SPCR

    Aristida

    Aristida

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Gutierrezia

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Plantago

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    threeawn

    threeawn

    black grama

    snakeweed

    ring muhly

    ring muhly

    plantain

    sand dropseed

    sand dropseed

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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

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    1356

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    135

    305

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    12.2

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium continuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27485; moist when described;
    C1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loam; weak medium angular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium continuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27486; dry when described;
    C2CA—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly loam; 3 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) medium distinct mottles; massive; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium continuous tubular pores; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A27487; dry when described;. a few yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam pipes, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) moist, and a few animal burrows
    C3CAM—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), white (10YR 8/1), dry; very hard, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27489; dry when described;
    C4ca—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), white (10YR 8/1), dry; gravelly loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, strongly coherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27488; dry when described;. massive except for the top of the horizon which has irregular horizontal laminae, 1/64 - 1/8 inch thick and for the vertical joints at approximately 6 foot intervals in rough hexagonal pattern; for the horizontal laminae and vertical joints which are strongly cemented. Sample is a composite of 20 to 38 inches.