IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Coxwell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966NM013010
  • User Pedon ID: S1966NM013010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966NM013010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5535
  • Print Date: 1/11/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 NE 1/4
  • Location Description: 0.2 mile north of Highway 70 at San Agustin Pass, east bank of telephone company road.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM013—Dona Ana
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM690—Dona Ana County Area, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. H. Gile and R. B. Grossman.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Ustic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Coxwell
  • PSC - 5 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Coxwell
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mountain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/1966 (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

    BOGR2

    GUTIE

    NOLIN

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Gutierrezia

    Nolina

    blue grama

    snakeweed

    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

    35

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    1783

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    270

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    ; fragments. Soil Surface: Between grass clumps and shrubs, the surface is nearly 100 percent covered with greater than 2 mm. material, dominantly of cobble size, with a few fragments greater than 10 inch diameter.
    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravel, cobbly sandy loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine granular structure; soft; 0.5 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A41574
    B21t—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2), moist; gravel, cobbly sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 3.0 roots; coats between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A41575
    B22t—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy loam; angular blocky structure; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; 75 percent coats; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A41576. Weathered monzonite bedrock; heavy sandy loam when crushed with fingers; structure controlled by bedrock, which breaks out as angular rock fragments, about 1 to 5 mm. diameter; removed readily with knife; many fragments separated by clay coatings.
    B23t—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry, coats; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A41577
    B3—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A41578. Weathered monzonite bedrock, dominantly reddish-brown with some 7.5YR hue; portions are removed difficulty with knife, are slightly hard, and crush easily into rock fragments ranging from about 1 to 10 mm. diameter; few roots, mainly in weathered seams, 1 to 2 cm. diameter; 5YR material stains and in places thinly coats the rock fragments.
    R1—84 to 132 centimeters (33.1 to 52.0 inches); fragments; noneffervescent; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A41579. Little-weathered monzonite bedrock; crushes into fragments dominantly of coarser sand and fine pebble size; roots extend downward along seams (1 to 10 mm diameter) of soft material; weak reddish-brown staining on some fragments.
    R2—132 to 178 centimeters (52.0 to 70.1 inches); 0.5 roots; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A41580