IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bonita
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969AZ009002
  • User Pedon ID: S1969AZ009002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969AZ009002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0176
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43749
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 32.4686127
  • Std. Longitude: -110.0466690
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet south and 100 feet west of the NE corner
  • Location Description: About 21 miles northwest of Willcox.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ009—Graham
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Richmond, H. Havens, K. Dunstan
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bonita
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Typic Chromusterts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/13/1969
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: fan
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 12.00 percent subangular 100- to 200-millimeter basalt, 25.00 percent subangular 20- to 75-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1969 (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

    PLMU3

    PLMU3

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

    tobosagrass

    tobosagrass

    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

    2

    1387

    45

    356

    16.1

    26.1

    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00899; dry when described;
    A12—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 8 percent by volume rounded 20-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00900; dry when described;
    A13—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent pressure faces; 4 percent by volume rounded 20-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00901; dry when described;
    C1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay; weak subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 4 percent by volume rounded 20-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00902; dry when described;
    C2—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) lime masses; 4 percent by volume rounded 20-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00903; dry when described;
    C3CA—79 to 89 centimeters (31.1 to 35.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) lime masses; 40 percent by volume rounded 20-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 69C00904; dry when described;
    2C4CA—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); pinkish gray (5YR 7/2) and reddish brown (5YR 5/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly loam; 21 percent medium distinct mottles; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; carbonate coats and 1 percent clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume rounded 20-?-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 30 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 69C00905; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 188549; continuous - phpvsfiid 188549