IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SANTO TOMAS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960NM013012
  • User Pedon ID: S1960NM013012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1960NM013012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0767
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 32.3051338
  • Std. Longitude: -106.5877914
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, SW 1/4
  • Location Description: cut bank along NE side of the main arroyo of Soledad Canyon in the Organ Mountains.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM013—Dona Ana
  • MLRA: 42B—Southern Rio Grande Rift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM690—Dona Ana County Area, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.H. Gile, R.B. Grossman, and F.F. Peterson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Pachic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SANTO TOMAS
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Santo Tomas
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/1960 (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

    BOGR2

    DAPU7

    FALLU

    GUTIE

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Dasyochloa pulchella

    Fallugia

    Gutierrezia

    blue grama

    low woollygrass

    Apache plume

    snakeweed

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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

    7

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    1739

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    315

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    ; fragments.
    C—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium platy parts to weak very fine structure; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05705. desert pavement of gravel included in sample
    A11—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very gravelly loam; loose; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05706
    A12—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very gravelly loam; massive parts to weak very fine; slightly hard; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05707
    A13—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard; 3.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05708
    A3—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A05709
    C—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive parts to single grain; slightly hard, loose; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A05710. When this was proposed as a series in 1980, the horizonation was evaluated and some changes made. L.H. 9/93.