IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dalby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969NM013001
  • User Pedon ID: S1969NM013001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969NM013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0809
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: center of east half of playa
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM013—Dona Ana
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM690—Dona Ana County Area, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. H. Gile and R. B. Grossman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Chromic Calcitorrerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dalby
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DALBY
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

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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

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    1417

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06120
    B21—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; very hard; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06121
    B22—16 to 31 centimeters (6.3 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06122
    B23—31 to 72 centimeters (12.2 to 28.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very hard; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06123
    B24—72 to 110 centimeters (28.3 to 43.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very hard; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06124
    B31—110 to 159 centimeters (43.3 to 62.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very hard; 1 percent fine weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06125
    B32CACS—159 to 194 centimeters (62.6 to 76.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard; 1 percent carbonate concretions and 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06126
    B21TCAB—194 to 235 centimeters (76.4 to 92.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry; 1 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06127
    B22TCAB—235 to 278 centimeters (92.5 to 109.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), dry; clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard when dry; 1 percent carbonate concretions and 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06128
    B23TCAB—278 to 306 centimeters (109.4 to 120.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), dry; clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard when dry; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06129
    2B24TCAB—306 to 325 centimeters (120.5 to 128.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4) and pink (7.5YR 7/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dry; gravelly clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06130
    3BTCAB2—325 to 337 centimeters (128.0 to 132.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06131
    3CCAM2—337 to 351 centimeters (132.7 to 138.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), pink (7.5YR 8/4), dry; strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A06132