IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sutherland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1964AZ003031
  • User Pedon ID: S1964AZ003031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1964AZ003031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3563
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39228
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025
  • 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: 32.1324997
  • Std. Longitude: -110.0744476
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 1560 feet east and 1850 feet south of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 2.8 miles from the Johnson mine.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James Jay and M. L. Richardson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, thermic Ustic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sutherland
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cave
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1964 (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

    ACBE

    DASYL

    LYCIU

    NOLIN

    TRMU

    YUCCA

    Acacia berlandieri

    Dasylirion

    Lycium

    Nolina

    Tridens muticus

    Yucca

    guajillo

    sotol

    desert-thorn

    beargrass

    slim tridens

    yucca

    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

    6

    1509

    45

    381

    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine continuous tubular and 21.0 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27479; moist when described;
    A12—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27480; moist when described;
    CCAM—20 to 20 centimeters (7.9 to 7.9 inches); white (10YR 8/1), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), moist; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm; 0.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27481; moist when described;. indurated lime conglomerate pan which is laminar in top 1/2 to 1 inch