IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lithic Torripsamments
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: AZ711-LAB4007-Lithic Torriorthents-0210-04
  • User Pedon ID: S2006AZ005-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0919
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17847
  • Print Date: 4/22/2025

    • 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: 36.6988907
  • Std. Longitude: -111.5953064
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: North of the Echo Cliffs off Hwy 89.
  • State: Arizona
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ711—Navajo Mountain Area, Arizona, Parts of Apache, Coconino and Navajo Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl Fuller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Lithic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lithic Torripsamments
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Lithic Torripsamments
  • PSC - 0 to 25 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/2003
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands derived from sandstone
  • Landform: plateau
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone and shale at 25cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Carmel Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9848-46
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    10 -

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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

    3

    140

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    1847.1

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    90

    305

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    180

    11

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    12

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    Ck—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; loamy fine sand; 9 percent clay; structureless massive; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9 um/s; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent by volume nonflat moderately coherent cemented 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04009; observed in shovel slice
    R—25 centimeters (9.8 inches); bedrock; Ksat of 0.42 um/s; very slow permeability; fragments.; observed in shovel slice