IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dry Lake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969AZ003014
  • User Pedon ID: S1969AZ003014
  • User Site Association ID: AZ665-pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0160
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43733
  • Print Date: 2/19/2025

    • 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: 32.0638885
  • Std. Longitude: -109.7952805
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet south and 250 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: West of Kansas Settlement Road, about 7-1/2 miles east and 3 miles south of Cochise.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Richmond, H. Havens, K. Dunstan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dry Lake
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dry Lake
  • Classificaton Date - 10/16/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: fan
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/16/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    1276

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    270

    279

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    14.4

    25.6

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    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loamy sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; irregular and 1 percent fine spherical white (10YR 8/1) carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00839. few fine white rounded and irregularly shaped lime concretions
    A12—23 to 61 centimeters (9.1 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loamy sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; irregular and 3 percent fine spherical white (10YR 8/1) carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 69C00840. common fine rounded and irregularly shaped white lime concretions
    2C1CA—61 to 90 centimeters (24.0 to 35.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; irregular noncoherent cemented lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00841. very thin, less than 1 mm, laminar stratum at 24 inches, 25 to 30 percent by volume of large irregularly shaped soft lime masses
    2C2CA—90 to 150 centimeters (35.4 to 59.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; loam; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; irregular noncoherent cemented lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 69C00842. 25 to 30 percent by volume of large irregularly shaped soft lime masses