IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Terrarossa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: AZ671-Terrarossa-Bench141
  • User Pedon ID: S2005AZ003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0548
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17866
  • 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: 31.7161102
  • Std. Longitude: -109.4791641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20 S
  • Range: 28 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: USGS Quadrangle - Bruno Peak; about 1,000 north and 200 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 141—Terrarossa-Blacktail-Pyeatt complex, 1 to 40 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ003—Cochise
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ671—Cochise County, Arizona, Douglas-Tombstone Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: McGuire
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Terrarossa
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/14/2008
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Terrarossa
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/25/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 29
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • 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
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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 very fine roots; 4.0 fine irregular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03197; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt1—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay; 50 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct pressure faces and 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03198; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 294135; continuous - phpvsfiid 294135
    Bt2—28 to 69 centimeters (11.0 to 27.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay; 55 percent clay; strong medium and coarse prismatic parts to strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct pressure faces; 1 percent fine manganese coatings on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03199; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 294136; continuous - phpvsfiid 294136
    Bt3—69 to 152 centimeters (27.2 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly sandy clay; 42 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint carbonate coats on rock fragments and 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent fine manganese coatings on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # 05N03200; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 294138; continuous - phpvsfiid 294139; patchy - phpvsfiid 294140; continuous - phpvsfiid 294138; continuous - phpvsfiid 294139; patchy - phpvsfiid 294140