IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Thunderbird
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965AZ025017
  • User Pedon ID: S1965AZ025017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965AZ025017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3597
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39262
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 34.6597214
  • Std. Longitude: -112.6516647
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: About 2/10 mile southeast of the Rancho Moana road on the county road between Skull Valley and Williamson Valley, then about 300 feet east of road. Photo EGE 22-155.
  • 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 #: 17
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Thunderbird
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1965
  • 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
  • Bedrock: basalt at 79cm
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter 30.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1965 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: EGE22-155
  • 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

    PLMU3

    PLMU3

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Juniperus

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Mahonia trifoliolata

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

    blue grama

    blue grama

    juniper

    algerita

    algerita

    tobosagrass

    tobosagrass

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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

    8

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    1478

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    270

    356

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    12.2

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    15.6

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; cobbly loam; strong fine platy parts to moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basaltic-ash fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter basaltic-ash fragments; 7 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27682
    B1T—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 7 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; 7.5 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27683
    B21T—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent pressure faces; 8 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; 8 Thymol-blue; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27684
    B22T—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent pressure faces; 8 percent by volume 2-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; 8 Thymol-blue; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27685
    Cca—71 to 79 centimeters (28.0 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly clay loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 8.19999981 Thymol-blue; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A27686
    R—79 centimeters (31.1 inches);, 7.5YR 4/0 (7.5YR 4/0), dry; bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27687