IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berino
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968NM013009
  • User Pedon ID: S1968NM013009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968NM013009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0793
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 32.4520721
  • Std. Longitude: -106.7111282
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: In the NE 1/4, SW 1/4
  • Location Description: about 110 feet N of S68NM-007-005.
  • 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berino
  • PSC - 3 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berino
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/1969 (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

    PLMU3

    PLMU3

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

    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

    1

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    1315

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    270

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    ; fragments.
    A2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; soft; 0.5 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05944
    C—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loamy sand; massive; soft; 3.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05954
    B21t—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05945
    A2—8 to 14 centimeters (3.1 to 5.5 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3) and reddish brown (5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A05955. abrupt smooth boundary to underlying B21t sampled laterally
    B22t—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05946
    B23tca—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; faint carbonate coats on rock fragments; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05947
    K2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4) and light brown (7.5YR 6/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and massive; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05948
    Bca—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; massive; hard; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05949
    K—84 to 132 centimeters (33.1 to 52.0 inches); 90 percent pink (7.5YR 8/4) and pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) and reddish brown (5YR 5/4), 90 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; sandy clay loam; massive; extremely hard; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05950. 40A05951; 84 to 107 cm and 107 to 132 cm
    C1ca—132 to 157 centimeters (52.0 to 61.8 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; sandy loam; massive; hard; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05952
    C2ca—157 to 185 centimeters (61.8 to 72.8 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; massive; soft; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A05953. the pedon described above occurs in one of the common barren areas which are interspersed among the vegetated zones; at the sample site, the western part of the pit is cut in one of the barren spots and the eastern part is cut in a tobosa-burrograss stand; a thin, but distinct A2 horizon is preserved beneath a youthful sandy deposit in the vegetated zone; offset samples of the youthful deposit and A2b were taken for purposes of comparison, three feet east of the sampled pedon