IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969AZ003005
  • User Pedon ID: S1969AZ003005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969AZ003005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0151
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43724
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 32.2086105
  • Std. Longitude: -109.8666687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet south and 2,550 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: East of US Highway 666, about 3 miles south and 2 miles west of Willcox.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Richmond, H. Havens, K. Dunstan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ustic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crot
  • PSC - 13 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crot
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    BORO2

    BORO2

    ISTE2

    SPAI

    YUCCA

    Bouteloua rothrockii

    Bouteloua rothrockii

    Isocoma tenuisecta

    Sporobolus airoides

    Yucca

    Rothrock's grama

    Rothrock's grama

    burroweed

    alkali sacaton

    yucca

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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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    1274

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    225

    279

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    14.4

    25.6

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    A21—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00773; dry when described;
    A22—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 medium and coarse tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00774; dry when described;
    B21TCASA—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium and coarse columnar parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent fine and medium irregular noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00775; dry when described;. common fine and medium irregularly shaped soft white lime masses.
    B22TCASA—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 3 percent fine and medium irregular noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00776; dry when described;. common fine and medium irregularly shaped soft white lime masses.
    B3SAG—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; sandy loam; 1 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00777; dry when described;
    C1SAG—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; quartzite fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter andesitic-ash fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00778; dry when described;. about 5 percent by volume of 5 to 10 mm subangular rhyolite, andesite, quartzite and granitic gravel.
    C2SAG—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist; stony sand; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 69C00779; dry when described;