IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969AZ003023
  • User Pedon ID: S1969AZ003023
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969AZ003023
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0169
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43742
  • Print Date: 3/6/2025

    • 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: 32.1324997
  • Std. Longitude: -109.7747192
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1,750 feet south and 500 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Near Flanders Ranch, about 9 miles east and 1 mile north of Cochise.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Richmond, H. Havens, K. Dunstan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Aridic Leptic Natrustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 23
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crot
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crot
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1969 (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

    EROB

    SPAI

    Eragrostis obtusiflora

    Sporobolus airoides

    alkali lovegrass

    alkali sacaton

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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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    1268

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    270

    279

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    14.4

    25.6

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    A21SA—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00868; moist when described;
    A22SA—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00869; moist when described;
    B21TCASA—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00870; moist when described;
    B22TCASA—41 to 50 centimeters (16.1 to 19.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00871; moist when described;
    B3TCASAG—50 to 84 centimeters (19.7 to 33.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and pale yellow (5Y 8/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2) and pale yellow (5Y 7/3), moist; clay loam; massive parts to weak medium subangular blocky; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent irregular noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) lime masses; 3 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00872; moist when described;. about 3 percent by volume of 2 to 10 mm subangular quartz gravel; about 25 percent by volume irregularly shaped soft white lime masses
    C1G—84 to 110 centimeters (33.1 to 43.3 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; stratified stratified loam to sandy loam; massive; hard when dry, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 20 percent irregular noncoherent cemented pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) lime masses; 12 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00873; moist when described;. about 10 to 20 percent by volume of 2 to 10 mm subangular quartz gravel; about 20 percent by volume of irregularly shaped soft pinkish white masses
    C2G—110 to 145 centimeters (43.3 to 57.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) and brown (7.5YR 5/4), olive gray (5Y 5/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; stratified stratified clay to sandy loam; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 69C00874; moist when described;