IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): STELLAR
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970NM013004
  • User Pedon ID: S1970NM013004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970NM013004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0816
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SE 1/4,
  • Location Description: about 150 ft west of pedon 69-1.
  • Map Unit: ST—Stellar 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: Fine, smectitic, thermic Argic Petrocalcids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - STELLAR
  • PSC - 7 to 57 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/3/2005
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - STELLAR
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous dust and/or playa sediments mixed
  • Landform: playa
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1970 (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

    GUTIE

    PLMU3

    SCBR2

    Gutierrezia

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Scleropogon brevifolius

    snakeweed

    tobosagrass

    burrograss

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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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    A2—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak fine platy, and weak very fine platy structure; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06194. Original lab sample number is 70L267.
    Bt1—7 to 16 centimeters (2.8 to 6.3 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; hard; 3.0 roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06195. Original lab sample number is 70L268.
    Bt21—16 to 25 centimeters (6.3 to 9.8 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard; 3.0 roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06196. Original lab sample number is 70L2769.
    Bt22—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; very hard; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06197. Original lab sample number is 70L270.
    Bt23—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard; 0.5 roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06198. Original lab sample number is 70L271.
    Batc24—71 to 93 centimeters (28.0 to 36.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 0.5 roots; threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A06199. Original lab sample number is 70L272.
    Cacm1—93 to 117 centimeters (36.6 to 46.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; cemented material; strong very coarse platy structure; extremely hard; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A06200. Original lab sample number is 70L273.
    Bacb—93 to 117 centimeters (36.6 to 46.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly clay; massive; very hard; 0.5 roots; rounded 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A06201. This horizon is discontinuous and occurs in a small pocket in the top of the C1cam horizon. Original lab sample number is 70L274.