IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elcor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987-NM015-300-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1987-NM015-300-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0435
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60553
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 32.0361099
  • Std. Longitude: -104.4516678
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26S
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet W and 400 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: T24E R26S recorded on description changed to T26S R24E
  • 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-A4—Rattlesnake Spring, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-gypseous, hypergypsic, thermic Lithic Haplogypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 300
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elcor
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/2017
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Yeso
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, gypsic Lithic Torriorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: karst
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated gypsum, rock at 36cm
  • Geology: Castile Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1987 (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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    36 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    gypsic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—36

    36—36

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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

    3

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    1174

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    180

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; moderate thin platy structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02251; observed in trench. few very fine and fine roots
    Byy—5 to 36 centimeters (2.0 to 14.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, moist; Error; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine to coarse roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02252; observed in trench. common very fine roots; few fine to coarse roots
    R—36 to 200 centimeters (14.2 to 78.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, moist; bedrock; fragments.; observed in trench. Very hard gypsum.