IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beardsley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978AZ013003
  • User Pedon ID: S1978AZ013003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978AZ013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0302
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45856
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 33.7981224
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2612915
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet W and 20 feet N of SE corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ013—Maricopa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ651—Maricopa County, Arizona, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beardsley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, hyperthermic Typic Durargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • 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

    LEPID

    LUAR

    PARKI2

    SPHAE

    Carnegia gigantea

    Festuca

    Lepidium

    Lupinus arboreus

    Parkinsonia

    Sphaeralcea

    saguaro

    fescue

    pepperweed

    yellow bush lupine

    paloverde

    globemallow

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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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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine granular parts to weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P01615
    B1—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P01616
    B21t—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay; 45 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P01617. patchy - phpvsfiid 241988; patchy - phpvsfiid 241988
    B22tca—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01618. patchy - phpvsfiid 241989; patchy - phpvsfiid 241989
    2Ccam—38 to 68 centimeters (15.0 to 26.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; 35 percent clay; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 60 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01619
    3Ccam—68 to 73 centimeters (26.8 to 28.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), dry; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 78P01620