IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Artesia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977AZ003002
  • User Pedon ID: S1977AZ003002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977AZ003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1145
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34754
  • 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: 32.4226189
  • Std. Longitude: -109.2417526
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 30E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: approximately 1,000 feet south and 1,000 feet east of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Cochise County, Arizona. , about 11 miles north of San Simon on the north side of Orange Butte.
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Haploxeralfic Argidurids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Artesia
  • PSC - 3 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Artesia
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: gently sloping, smooth terrace
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 30.00 percent 20- to 75-millimeter 30.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    ACGR

    AGSM

    BOER4

    DAPU7

    EPVI

    GUTIE

    MUPU2

    PLMU3

    PROSO

    SEVU2

    Acacia greggii

    Agropyron smithii

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Dasyochloa pulchella

    Ephedra viridis

    Gutierrezia

    Muhlenbergia pungens

    Pleuraphis mutica

    Prosopis

    Setaria vulpiseta

    catclaw acacia

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    black grama

    low woollygrass

    mormon tea

    snakeweed

    sandhill muhly

    tobosagrass

    mesquite

    plains bristlegrass

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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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    1170.4

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    270

    254

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    17.2

    28.3

    7.2

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very cobbly sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08694
    B1T—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A08695
    B21T—8 to 31 centimeters (3.1 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine interstitial and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08696
    B22T—31 to 50 centimeters (12.2 to 19.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine interstitial and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 40 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A08697
    C1SICA—50 to 98 centimeters (19.7 to 38.6 inches); white (N 8/0), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), moist; moderately coherent by silica; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A08698