IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gran
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978AZ013011
  • User Pedon ID: S1978AZ013011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978AZ013011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0310
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45864
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 33.7409019
  • Std. Longitude: -112.2121201
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 2620 feet W and 500 feet N of SE Corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ013—Maricopa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ651—Maricopa County, Arizona, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, hyperthermic, shallow Typic Haplargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gran
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, hyperthermic, shallow Typic Haplargids
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/1978
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/20/1978 (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

    AMSIN

    ARIST

    CAGI7

    ENCEL

    EUSID

    FEROC

    FESTU

    FOSP2

    LATR2

    LEPID

    PARKI2

    Amsinckia

    Aristida

    Carnegia gigantea

    Encelia

    Eusideroxylon

    Ferocactus

    Festuca

    Fouquieria splendens

    Larrea tridentata

    Lepidium

    Parkinsonia

    fiddleneck

    threeawn

    saguaro

    brittlebush

    ironwood

    barrel cactus

    fescue

    ocotillo

    creosote bush

    pepperweed

    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

    25

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; cobbly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films; 75 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red. Lab sample # 78P01653
    B2t—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; very gravelly sandy clay; 45 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films; 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red. Lab sample # 78P01654
    Cr1—20 to 92 centimeters (7.9 to 36.2 inches); gravelly sandy loam; massive; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red. Lab sample # 78P01655
    Cr2—92 to 102 centimeters (36.2 to 40.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 78P01656