IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arno
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987-NM015-003-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1987-NM015-003-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60177
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 32.2268028
  • Std. Longitude: -104.0001639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24S
  • Range: 29E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 650 feet W and 700 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: 1 mile NW of Malaga Bend. T.2N. entered from description changed to T24S
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM015—Eddy
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-MAF—Marfa, Texas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM614—Eddy Area, New Mexico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32104-B1—Malaga, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Sodic Haplotorrerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arno
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/2017
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arno
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed (calcareous), thermic Vertic Torrifluv
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1987
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—28

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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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    915

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    135

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior, reddish gray (5YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay loam; moderate medium cloddy, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in trench. Present in this profile only, in all other included as Ap horizon.
    Ap2—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior, dry; silty clay; structureless massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine and fine roots and few medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; C of Field texture class; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00311; observed in trench
    C1—28 to 81 centimeters (11.0 to 31.9 inches); dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior, dry; silty clay; structureless massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine and fine roots and few medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; C of Field texture class; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00312; observed in trench
    C2—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dry; silty clay; structureless massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine and fine roots and few coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; C of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00313; observed in trench
    C3—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dry; silty clay; structureless massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; C of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P00314; observed in trench