IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cherrycow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: AZ671-Cherrycow-Bench027
  • User Pedon ID: S2005AZ003003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0549
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17867
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 31.7177773
  • Std. Longitude: -109.4775009
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20 S
  • Range: 28 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: USGS Quadrangle - Bruno Peak; about 1,600 feet north and 1,100 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 96—Lanque-Stanford complex, 0 to 5 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, smectitic, thermic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cherrycow
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2005
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cherrycow
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 25.00 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    Setting and Climate
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    1530

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist; very cobbly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots; 4.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03201; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt1—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly clay; 52 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10.0 very fine roots; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent distinct manganese coatings on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03202; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 294141; continuous - phpvsfiid 294142; continuous - phpvsfiid 294141; continuous - phpvsfiid 294142
    Bt2—38 to 91 centimeters (15.0 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay; 52 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4.0 very fine roots; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent distinct manganese coatings on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03203; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 294143; continuous - phpvsfiid 294144; continuous - phpvsfiid 294143; continuous - phpvsfiid 294144
    R—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.