IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chuckawalla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980AZ013006
  • User Pedon ID: S1980AZ013006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0165
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47393
  • 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: 32.9650002
  • Std. Longitude: -112.6247253
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 656 meters S and 549 meters E of the NW corner
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ013—Maricopa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J P and D B
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, hyperthermic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chuckawalla
  • PSC - 18 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chuckawalla
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, hyperthermic Typic Haplargi
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1980
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1A11—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine vesicular pores; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00830. .88 mmhos conductivity.; few very fine roots throughout
    1A12—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00830. 6.8 mmhos conductivity.; few very fine roots throughout
    1Bt—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior, reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00831
    1C1ca—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), pink (5YR 7/4), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 65 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00832
    2C2—43 to 101 centimeters (16.9 to 39.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (5YR 7/6), dry; very gravelly loamy sand; massive; hard, very friable; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P00833
    3B2tbca—101 to 153 centimeters (39.8 to 60.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; gravelly loamy sand; massive; hard, very friable; 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 80P00834