IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moano
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969AZ003020
  • User Pedon ID: S1969AZ003020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969AZ003020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0166
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43739
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 31.9194450
  • Std. Longitude: -109.9119415
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17S
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet east of northwest corner
  • Location Description: 5-1/2 miles west and 1-1/2 north of Pearce.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Richmond, H. Havens, K. Dunstan
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moano
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic Lithic Haplargids
  • PSC - 8 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/1969
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/1969 (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

    BOGR2

    BOGR2

    PLMU3

    PLMU3

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

    blue grama

    blue grama

    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

    10

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    1439

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    90

    330

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    15.6

    25.6

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 7 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00858; dry when described;. about 70 percent surface cover of 1/8 to 1 inch subangular schist gravel; 40 to 50 percent by volume of 1/8 to 1-1/2 inch subangular schist gravel
    B21T—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 7.30000019 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00859; dry when described;. about 50 percent by volume of 1/8 to 1-1/2 inch subangular schist gravel
    B22T—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 69C00860; dry when described;. about 50 percent by volume of 1/8 to 1-1/2 inch subangular schist gravel
    R—43 to 124 centimeters (16.9 to 48.8 inches); extremely hard; fragments; noneffervescent.; dry when described;. gray fractured extremely hard tilted schist bedrock with thin tongues of soil material in fractures, gray when moist. Interior of rock is noneffervescent. Rock faces and soil material in fractures are slightly to strongly effervescent.