IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elfrida
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969AZ003015
  • User Pedon ID: S1969AZ003015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969AZ003015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0161
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43734
  • 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: 32.0634575
  • Std. Longitude: -109.7650986
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet west and 600 feet south of northeast corner
  • Location Description: West of Kansas Settlement Road, about 9 miles west and 3-1/2 miles south of Cochise.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Richmond, H. Havens, K. Dunstan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Pachic Calciustolls
  • 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 #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elfrida
  • PSC - 33 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ELFRIDA
  • Classificaton Date - 10/16/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GOSSY

    GOSSY

    Gossypium

    Gossypium

    cotton

    cotton

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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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    1286

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    270

    279

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    14.4

    25.6

    5

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    AP—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00843
    A12—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 69C00844
    C1CA—56 to 83 centimeters (22.0 to 32.7 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 25 percent irregular lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00845
    C2CA—83 to 125 centimeters (32.7 to 49.2 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) and pink (7.5YR 7/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4) and light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 17 percent irregular noncoherent cemented lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 69C00846