IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Suncity
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978AZ013002
  • User Pedon ID: S1978AZ013002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978AZ013002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45855
  • Print Date: 1/26/2025

    • 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: 33.7981224
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2893448
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet E and 20 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ013—Maricopa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ651—Maricopa County, Arizona, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, hyperthermic
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Suncity
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, hyperthermic
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/1978
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    CAGI7

    FESTU

    LATR2

    LUAR

    PARKI2

    Carnegia gigantea

    Festuca

    Larrea tridentata

    Lupinus arboreus

    Parkinsonia

    saguaro

    fescue

    creosote bush

    yellow bush lupine

    paloverde

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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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    427

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; loam; 22 percent clay; weak platy parts to weak fine granular structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P01608
    B21t—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; clay; 58 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01609
    B22t—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; clay; 55 percent clay; weak subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3 percent clay films on rock fragments; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01610
    B3t—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; clay; 45 percent clay; weak subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3 percent clay films on rock fragments; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01611
    2Ccam—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry; sandy loam; moderately hard, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 78P01612
    3Ccam—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), pink (7.5YR 8/4), dry; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 78P01613
    4Ccam—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), dry; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 78P01614