IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tencee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970NM013003
  • User Pedon ID: S1970NM013003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970NM013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0815
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33874
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: 250 ft north of scarp
  • Map Unit: TE—Tencee-Upton association
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM013—Dona Ana
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM690—Dona Ana County Area, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.H. Gile & R.B. Grossman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, thermic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tencee
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tencee
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: basin floor sediment mixed and/or calcareous dust
  • Landform: Relict basin floor
  • Surface Fragments: subangular 40.00 percent angular
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/8/1970 (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

    DAPU7

    FLCE

    LATR2

    PAIN2

    Dasyochloa pulchella

    Flourensia cernua

    Larrea tridentata

    Parthenium incanum

    low woollygrass

    American tarwort

    creosote bush

    mariola

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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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    1402

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; very fine granular, and massive; soft; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06183. Original lab sample number is 70L257
    Bac21—4 to 10 centimeters (1.6 to 3.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; slightly hard; 3.0 roots; subangular 25-?-127 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06184. Original lab sample number is 70L258
    Cac1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly loam; massive; soft; 3.0 roots; rounded unspecified fragments and flat unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06185. Original lab sample number is 70L259
    Cac2—28 to 42 centimeters (11.0 to 16.5 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly loam; fine massive; soft; 3.0 fine roots top of horizon; flat unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06186. Original lab sample number is 70L260
    Cacm3—42 to 102 centimeters (16.5 to 40.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist; cemented material; platy structure; extremely hard; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06187. Original lab sample number is 70L261
    Cacm4—102 to 156 centimeters (40.2 to 61.4 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; cemented material; platy, and angular blocky structure; extremely hard; 0.5 fine roots; thin very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, and very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06188. Original lab sample number is 70L262
    Cac5—156 to 206 centimeters (61.4 to 81.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; cemented material; platy structure; extremely hard; fine gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A06189. Original lab sample number is 70L263