IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cherrycow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: AZ675-Cherrycow-Bench758
  • User Pedon ID: S2005AZ009003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: AZ675-Cherrycow-Bench758
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0552
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17870
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 33.3989983
  • Std. Longitude: -110.0157776
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1 N
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2,400 feet north and 1,100 feet west of southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 23—Cherrycow-Kuykendall-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ009—Graham
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ675—San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona, Parts of Gila and Graham Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wood/Quesada
  • 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
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2005
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cherrycow
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from volcanic and metamorphic rock
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered basalt
  • Geology: Bronco Gulch Basalts formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent nonflat 2- to 5-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat 20- to 75-millimeter 10.00 percent nonflat 5- to 20-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/11/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 107-107
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    HOPU

    LUPIN

    OPUNT

    VUOC

    Hordeum pusillum

    Lupinus

    Opuntia

    Vulpia octoflora

    little barley

    lupine

    pricklypear

    sixweeks fescue

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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

    4

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    1499.3

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    0

    460

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    175

    16.1

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong very fine granular, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 15.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03214; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—3 to 28 centimeters (1.2 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly clay; 50 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 70 percent prominent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N03215
    Bt2—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; cobbly clay; 55 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky, and strong very fine wedge structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine irregular pores; 20 percent distinct pressure faces on vertical faces of peds and 25 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N03216
    Btk—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; cobbly clay; 44 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine irregular pores; 30 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 5 percent coarse prominent irregular very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent medium prominent irregular very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6. Lab sample # 05N03217
    R—66 to 152 centimeters (26.0 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.