IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hilken
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987-NM015-004-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1987-NM015-004-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0055
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60178
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 32.6539361
  • Std. Longitude: -104.2217528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19S
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet N and 600 feet E of SW corner
  • Location Description: 4 mi S of Illinois Camp.
  • 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-F2—Illinois Camp, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ustalfic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hilken
  • PSC - 15 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2017
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Illcamp
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1987 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    56 - 81

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—15

    15—56

    56—81

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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

    —

    —

    991

    —

    335

    571

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    16.7

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    PRISM

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; L of Field texture class; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00315; observed in trench. common very fine and fine roots
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate fine platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00315; observed in trench. common very fine and fine roots; few coarse roots
    Bt—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P00316; observed in trench. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    Btk1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00317; observed in trench. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots; few coarse roots
    Btk2—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; stony clay loam; structureless massive; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P00318; observed in trench. 10% gravel.; few clay films surface features; few very fine and fine roots
    Bkkm—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); cemented material; fragments.; observed in trench. Fractured caliche.