IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Navajo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962AZ017002
  • User Pedon ID: S1962AZ017002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3568
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39233
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 35.1233330
  • Std. Longitude: -110.7191696
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1050 feet east and 1320 feet south of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 7 miles NW of Winslow, Arizona.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ017—Navajo
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ633—Navajo County Area, Arizona, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, acid, mesic Typic Torrifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Navajo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Navajo
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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

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    1463

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    45

    203

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    12.8

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; clay; weak medium and coarse platy structure; hard when dry, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 roots; 21.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27505
    C1—13 to 48 centimeters (5.1 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 roots; 21.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27506
    C2—48 to 86 centimeters (18.9 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; massive, and weak medium angular blocky; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27507
    C3—86 to 124 centimeters (33.9 to 48.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; massive, and weak medium angular blocky; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27508
    C4—124 to 163 centimeters (48.8 to 64.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and 1 percent pink (5YR 8/3) fine faint mottles; massive, and weak medium angular blocky; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27509
    C5—163 to 231 centimeters (64.2 to 90.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and 3 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) fine and medium and 3 percent pink (5YR 8/3) fine faint mottles; massive, and weak medium angular blocky; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A27510
    C6—231 to 279 centimeters (90.9 to 109.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and 3 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) fine and medium and 3 percent pink (5YR 8/3) fine faint mottles; massive, and weak medium angular blocky; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A27511
    C7—279 to 340 centimeters (109.8 to 133.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay; light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and 3 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) fine and medium and 3 percent pink (5YR 8/3) fine faint mottles; massive, and weak medium angular blocky; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A27512