IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caralampi
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968AZ023007
  • User Pedon ID: S1968AZ023007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968AZ023007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0135
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43587
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 31.4727783
  • Std. Longitude: -110.8430557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: about 1400 feet south of NW corner
  • Location Description: 1.3 miles northwest of Highway 82 and 800 feet east of cattle guard at bottom of hill. About 10 miles northeast of Nogales on road to Lake Patagonia. Photo AMS-670.
  • 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Ustollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Caralampi
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Ustollic Haplargids
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AMS-670
  • 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

    BOCU

    HILAR

    LYCUR

    Acacia berlandieri

    Aristida

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Hilaria

    Lycurus

    guajillo

    threeawn

    sideoats grama

    curly-mesquite

    wolfstail

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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

    25

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    1249.7

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    0

    368

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    16.7

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00991; moist when described;
    A—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C00991; moist when described;
    B1t—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 35 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00992; moist when described;
    BT—10 to 61 centimeters (3.9 to 24.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C00992; moist when described;
    B2t—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 45 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    B3t—56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) and light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 55 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    C—94 to 183 centimeters (37.0 to 72.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; very gravelly sandy loam, sandy clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 50 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, bromthymol blue.; moist when described;