IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Soldier
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962AZ005025
  • User Pedon ID: S1962AZ005025
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1962AZ005025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0691
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33754
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 34.4941673
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2783356
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Long Valley Area, Arizona. Coconino County, Arizona, photo DGJ-8-131. 19 miles E, 48 miles S. of Flagstaff.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ005—Coconino
  • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Soldier
  • PSC - 43 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/1962
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DGJ-8-131
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    FEAR2

    FEAR2

    PIPO

    Festuca arizonica

    Festuca arizonica

    Pinus ponderosa

    Arizona fescue

    Arizona fescue

    ponderosa pine

    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

    5

    2256

    270

    610

    7.2

    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravel, cobbly loam; weak medium and coarse platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05128
    A2—8 to 43 centimeters (3.1 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; Error; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; medium and coarse roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05129. 20 percent by volume of rock material greater than 3/4 inch in diameter discarded from characterization and BPR samples.
    B2T—43 to 91 centimeters (16.9 to 35.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; gravel, cobbly clay; brown (7.5YR 5/4) and 21 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) fine faint mottles; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; coats on faces of peds and 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A05130. Lower boundary of B2 horizon varies from 25-52inch in depth in this pit. (25 percent by volume of rock material greater than 3/4inch in diameter discarded from characterization and BPR samples).
    B31—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; gravel, cobbly clay; 21 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/8) medium and coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; coats on faces of peds and 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A05131. 15 percent by volume of rock material greater than 3/4 inch in diameter discarded from characterization and BPR samples.
    B32—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; gravel, cobbly clay; 21 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/8) medium and coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; coats on faces of peds and 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A05132. 10 percent by volume of rock material greater than 3/4 inch discarded from characterization and BPR samples.