IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PHILDER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974NM035005
  • User Pedon ID: S1974NM035005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1974NM035005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 74C0025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44786
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 26S
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM035—Otero
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM646—Otero Area, New Mexico, Parts of Otero, Eddy and Chaves Counties

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PHILDER
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2006
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Philder
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/1974 (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

    ARIST

    BOER4

    BOGR2

    EPHED

    YUCCA

    Aristida

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Ephedra

    Yucca

    threeawn

    black grama

    blue grama

    jointfir

    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

    1

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    1577

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    45

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    A11—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very fine sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 74C00177
    A12—6 to 14 centimeters (2.4 to 5.5 inches); very fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 74C00178
    B2—14 to 26 centimeters (5.5 to 10.2 inches); loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 74C00179
    Bc3—26 to 48 centimeters (10.2 to 18.9 inches); gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 74C00180
    Ccm—48 to 65 centimeters (18.9 to 25.6 inches); cemented material; massive; extremely hard by carbonates; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 74C00181