IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Thunderbird
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965AZ025013
  • User Pedon ID: S1965AZ025013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965AZ025013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3596
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39261
  • 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: 34.6603203
  • Std. Longitude: -112.6296387
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 2 miles east of the junction of the Rancho Moana and Williamson Valley roads on the county road between Skull Valley and Williamson Valley. Photo EGE 22-73.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ025—Yavapai
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ637—Yavapai County, Arizona, Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Thunderbird
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/1965
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/1965 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: EGE 22-73
  • 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

    BOGR2

    JUNIP

    MATR3

    MATR3

    NOLIN

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Juniperus

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Nolina

    blue grama

    blue grama

    juniper

    algerita

    algerita

    beargrass

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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

    9

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    1524

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    180

    406

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    12.2

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    15

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very cobbly loam; weak medium platy parts to strong fine granular structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 fine vesicular and tubular and 21.0 interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 7 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27676
    B1T—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 7 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27677
    B21T—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 interstitial pores; 75 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; 7.5 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27678
    B22T—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 interstitial pores; pressure faces and 21 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 8 Thymol-blue; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27679
    2B3TCA—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); black (7.5YR 2/1), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; very gravelly clay; 1 percent medium and 3 percent fine distinct mottles; massive, and moderate fine subangular blocky; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; irregular white (10YR 8/1) lime masses; fragments; 8 Thymol-blue; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27680
    2C—102 to 206 centimeters (40.2 to 81.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 8/6), black (7.5YR 2/1), dry; weakly coherent; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27681. weathered basalt cinders with a few pockets of white lime coated cinders. Pockets are 3 to 20 inch in diameter. 10 percent of mass is soil material of clay texture. Cinders are weakly cemented.