IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Onite
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970NM013005
  • User Pedon ID: S1970NM013005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970NM013005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0747
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 32.4515190
  • Std. Longitude: -106.7166824
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, SW 1/4
  • Location Description: about 700 feet north of pedon S70NM-007-006.
  • 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 and R.B. Grossman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Onite
  • PSC - 6 to 47 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Onite
  • Classificaton Date - 4/10/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ridge
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/10/1970 (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

    EPVI

    EPVI

    GUTIE

    PROSO

    Dasyochloa pulchella

    Ephedra viridis

    Ephedra viridis

    Gutierrezia

    Prosopis

    low woollygrass

    mormon tea

    mormon tea

    snakeweed

    mesquite

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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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    1312

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    270

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    ; fragments.
    A2—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; weak medium platy, and massive; soft; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05526
    B21t—6 to 16 centimeters (2.4 to 6.3 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05527
    B22t—16 to 32 centimeters (6.3 to 12.6 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; massive, and weak medium subangular blocky; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05528
    B31tca—32 to 47 centimeters (12.6 to 18.5 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05529
    B32ca—47 to 74 centimeters (18.5 to 29.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam, loamy sand; massive; slightly hard; 0.5 roots; carbonate coats on sand and gravel; 1 percent carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05530. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178653; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 178653
    C1ca—74 to 87 centimeters (29.1 to 34.3 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; massive; hard; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05531
    2C2—87 to 157 centimeters (34.3 to 61.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A05532. there are also small volumes of light brown (7.5YR 6/4 dry) or brown (7.5YR 5/4 moist) fine sandy loam occurring as layers ranging from about 1 mm to 3 cm in thickness; slightly hard; no roots; a few carbonate filaments; most strata occur quite continuously across the sample pit; effervesces strongly; abrupt smooth boundary; particle-size distribution of the finer and the coarser parts of the IIC2 horizon has been determined; 40A05540 and 40A05541
    3C3—157 to 169 centimeters (61.8 to 66.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A05533. noncalcareous; abrupt smooth boundary
    3B21tb—169 to 189 centimeters (66.5 to 74.4 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard; 0.5 fine and medium pores; 1 percent carbonate threads; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05534
    3B22tcab—189 to 215 centimeters (74.4 to 84.6 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05535
    3B3tcab—215 to 239 centimeters (84.6 to 94.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent carbonate nodules and 1 percent carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05536
    3B1tcab2—239 to 255 centimeters (94.1 to 100.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; massive; hard; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05537
    3B2tcab2—255 to 268 centimeters (100.4 to 105.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A05538
    3K2b2—268 to 278 centimeters (105.5 to 109.4 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4) and light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), pink (7.5YR 7/4) and brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A05539