IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reakor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988-NM015-025-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1988-NM015-025-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0055
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61160
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 32.0633889
  • Std. Longitude: -104.1796056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26S
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet E and 200 feet SE of NW corner
  • 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-A2—Cottonwood Hills, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Reakor
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/2017
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reakor
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: karst
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Geology: Rustler Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (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

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—10

    10—69

    39—152

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    975

    —

    135

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; L of Field texture class; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00570; observed in trench. few fine roots; common very fine roots
    Bw1—10 to 43 centimeters (3.9 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; L of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00571; observed in trench. few coarse roots; common fine roots
    Bw2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 11 percent fine lime masses; fragments; CL of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00572; observed in trench. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few coarse roots; common fine roots
    Bk1—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 11 percent coarse lime masses; fragments; CL of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00573; observed in trench. common coarse soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots; few coarse roots
    Bk2—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 11 percent coarse lime masses; fragments; CL of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P00574; observed in trench. common coarse soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots; few very fine roots