IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pimer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967AZ013011
  • User Pedon ID: S1967AZ013011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967AZ013011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 67C0060
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42953
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 33.4474983
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2233353
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 902 feet west and 121 feet south of the SE corner of the NE1/4 of the NE1/4
  • Location Description: 2 miles east of Tolleson.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ013—Maricopa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Hartman, S. Torrance, J. Jay
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pimer
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed (calcareous) Typic Torriorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 10/13/1967
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ZEMAH

    Zea mays ssp. parviglumis var. huehuetenangensis

    maize

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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

    1

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    323

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    180

    178

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    20

    32.2

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    AP1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 67C00696; moist when described;
    AP2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial and 3.0 tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 67C00697; moist when described;
    C1—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores and 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 67C00698; moist when described;
    C2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial and 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 67C00699; moist when described;
    C3—76 to 117 centimeters (29.9 to 46.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 67C00700; moist when described;
    C4—117 to 178 centimeters (46.1 to 70.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 67C00701; moist when described;