IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stellar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976NM017025
  • User Pedon ID: S1976NM017025
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976NM017025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1160
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34769
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 32.1229095
  • Std. Longitude: -108.4014511
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25S
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, NE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: South of I-10 and the Santa Fe Railroad.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM017—Grant
  • MLRA: 42B—Southern Rio Grande Rift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM662—Grant County, New Mexico, Central and Southern Parts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32108-A4—Brockman, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.D. Nettleton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Stellar
  • PSC - 3 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stellar
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: bolson
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1976 (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

    PLMU3

    PLMU3

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Pleuraphis mutica

    tobosagrass

    tobosagrass

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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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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 medium roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08803
    B1—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay; strong thin platy, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 medium roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08804
    B21t—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08805
    B22t—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08806
    B23tca—58 to 99 centimeters (22.8 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry, coats on faces of peds and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist,; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08807
    B31ca—99 to 130 centimeters (39.0 to 51.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08808
    B32ca—130 to 168 centimeters (51.2 to 66.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08809
    2B2tb—168 to 173 centimeters (66.1 to 68.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky; 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A08810