IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hueco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NM013002
  • User Pedon ID: S1990NM013002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990NM013002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0493
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 20 S
  • Range: 1 E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: In Exclosure B on the Jornada Experimental Range. The northwest corner of Exclosure B is about 58 m south of the edge of the road to headquarters. The sampled pedon is about 12 m south of the nonrecording rain gauge, and 0.7 m southwest of wires to the soil moisture blocks
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM013—Dona Ana
  • MLRA: 42B—Southern Rio Grande Rift

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. H. Gile
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Petrocalcic Paleargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hueco
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Petrocalcic Paleargids
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: nearly level basin floor
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/22/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BLEPH4

    BOER4

    EPVI

    GUTIE

    PROSO

    SCBR2

    YUELE

    Blepharoneuron

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Ephedra viridis

    Gutierrezia

    Prosopis

    Scleropogon brevifolius

    Yucca elata var. elata

    dropseed

    black grama

    mormon tea

    snakeweed

    mesquite

    burrograss

    soaptree yucca

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

    petrocalcic horizon

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

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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

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    C—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; stratified stratified sand; massive; soft, very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02716
    Ab—11 to 18 centimeters (4.3 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; loamy sand; weak fine platy, and weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02717
    BAtb—18 to 26 centimeters (7.1 to 10.2 inches); 5YR 5/5 (5YR 5/5), 5YR 3/5 (5YR 3/5), moist; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 35.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; clay bridges; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02718
    Btb1—26 to 35 centimeters (10.2 to 13.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), 5YR 4/5 (5YR 4/5), moist; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; clay bridges; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02719
    Btb2—35 to 50 centimeters (13.8 to 19.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), 5YR 4/5 (5YR 4/5), moist; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.1 fine roots; clay bridges; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02720
    Btb3—50 to 71 centimeters (19.7 to 28.0 inches); 5YR 5/5 (5YR 5/5), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.1 fine roots; clay bridges; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02721
    Btkb—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.1 fine roots; clay bridges; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02722
    Bkm—84 to 88 centimeters (33.1 to 34.6 inches); extremely hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 90P02723