IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caralampi
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968AZ023004
  • User Pedon ID: S1968AZ023004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968AZ023004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0132
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43584
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024
  • 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: 31.3852787
  • Std. Longitude: -110.9644470
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 2800 feet north and 1600 feet west of SE corner
  • Location Description: 2.5 miles north-northwest of Nogales.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ023—Santa Cruz
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ667—Santa Cruz and Parts of Cochise and Pima Counties, Arizona
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richardson and Havens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Caralampi
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Ustollic Haplargids
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1968
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: fan
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AMS-702
  • 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

    ARIST

    ARIST

    BOCH

    BOCH

    BOGR2

    BOGR2

    BORE2

    ERAGR

    KRER

    Acacia berlandieri

    Aristida

    Aristida

    Bouteloua chondrosioides

    Bouteloua chondrosioides

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua repens

    Eragrostis

    Krameria erecta

    guajillo

    threeawn

    threeawn

    sprucetop grama

    sprucetop grama

    blue grama

    blue grama

    slender grama

    lovegrass

    littleleaf ratany

    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

    25

    1122

    45

    406

    16.7

    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00979; moist when described;
    B1T—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00980; moist when described;
    B21T—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00981; moist when described;
    B22T—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; very gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00982; moist when described;
    B23T—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00983; moist when described;
    B31T—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) and 3 percent pink (5YR 7/3) fine faint mottles; massive parts to weak medium subangular blocky; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00984; moist when described;
    B32T—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; massive parts to weak medium subangular blocky; hard when dry, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00985; moist when described;
    C—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 68C00986; moist when described;