IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): latene
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971NM061001
  • User Pedon ID: S1971NM061001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1971NM061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 71C0053
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43912
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: miles east of the old windmill
  • Map Unit: LV—Latene loam
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM061—Valencia
  • MLRA: 36—Southwestern Plateaus, Mesas, and Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM612—Valencia County, New Mexico, Eastern Part

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Petronodic Haplocalcids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - latene
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - LATENE
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6779
  • 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

    ARIST

    BOER4

    MUTO2

    PLJA

    YUCCA

    Aristida

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Pleuraphis jamesii

    Yucca

    threeawn

    black grama

    ring muhly

    James' galleta

    yucca

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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

    2

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    1737

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    248

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    A1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 3 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 71C00337; moist when described;
    B2—7 to 24 centimeters (2.8 to 9.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 3 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 71C00338; moist when described;
    B3—24 to 38 centimeters (9.4 to 15.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 2 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 71C00339; moist when described;
    Cac1—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 75 percent carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments and carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 71C00340. Gravel or stone like at the beginning of the horizon
    Cac2—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), pink (7.5YR 7/4), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; massive; very hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated on bottom of rock fragments; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 71C00341
    C3—102 to 145 centimeters (40.2 to 57.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; carbonate masses and carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 71C00342. Discontinuous buried argillic horizon in the C3