IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stellar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NM013008
  • User Pedon ID: S1990NM013008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990NM013008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0499
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 21 S
  • Range: 2 E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: In the Stuart exclosure on the Jornada Experimental Range. The southeast corner of the exclosure is 23 m north of the road to Stuart Well. The sampled pedon is 6.8 m south of the nonrecording rain gauge and 1.7 m south of the fence on the south side of the exclosure.
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM013—Dona Ana
  • MLRA: 42B—Southern Rio Grande Rift

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. H. Gile
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Calciargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stellar
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Calciargids
  • Classificaton Date - 3/12/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: coalescent fan piedmont
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/12/1990 (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

    FLCE

    PLMU3

    Flourensia cernua

    Pleuraphis mutica

    American tarwort

    tobosagrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    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

    1

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    1311

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    90

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); pinkish gray (5YR 6/2), dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate coarse platy, and moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02782
    EA—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02783
    E—14 to 22 centimeters (5.5 to 8.7 inches); pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) and 5YR 6/5 (5YR 6/5), dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02784
    EB—22 to 29 centimeters (8.7 to 11.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02785
    Bt1—29 to 39 centimeters (11.4 to 15.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; clay bridges; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02786
    Bt2—39 to 54 centimeters (15.4 to 21.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; clay bridges; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02787
    Btk1—54 to 68 centimeters (21.3 to 26.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; clay bridges; 1 percent threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02788
    Btk2—68 to 78 centimeters (26.8 to 30.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; clay bridges; 1 percent threadlike carbonate masses and 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02789
    Btk3—78 to 97 centimeters (30.7 to 38.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; clay bridges; 1 percent carbonate nodules and 3 percent threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02790
    Btk4—97 to 105 centimeters (38.2 to 41.3 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 3 percent threadlike carbonate masses and 3 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P02791
    Bk—105 to 118 centimeters (41.3 to 46.5 inches); pink (5YR 7/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 90P02792