IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007NM688073
  • User Pedon ID: S2007NM688073
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0189
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23969
  • 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: 33.1108322
  • Std. Longitude: -106.3344803
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 south
  • Range: 7 east
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1823 feet east and 2867 feet south of the northwest corner of
  • Location Description: Otero County, New Mexico. Approximately 8.85 miles East and 3.55 miles South of junction of Range Roads 6 and 7. Rhodes Canyon.
  • Map Unit: 75—Shot-Aerobee association, 0 to 15 percent slopes58—Noum-Hembrillo association, 0 to 15 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM688—White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Parts of Dona Ana, Lincoln, Otero, Sierra and Socorro Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cates
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, gypsic, thermic Leptic Haplogypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 73
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shot
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, gypsic, thermic Leptic Haplogypsids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gypsiferous sandy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: stabilized dune
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/2008 (entry creation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ay

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ay

    Ay

    By1

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    Cy1

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

    ochric epipedon

    gypsic horizon

    0—3

    3—100

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    —97—
    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

    2

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    Ay—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine pores; 2 percent very fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01265; observed in pit, small
    By1—3 to 30 centimeters (1.2 to 11.8 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) broken face, pink (7.5YR 7/4) broken face, moist; gypsiferous sand; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 423 um/s; very rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine pores; 4 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout and 20 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout and 6 percent medium irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01266
    By2—30 to 60 centimeters (11.8 to 23.6 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, moist; gypsiferous sand; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 423 um/s; very rapid permeability; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 very fine pores; 30 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout and 4 percent very fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter, saturated paste; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01267
    By3—60 to 100 centimeters (23.6 to 39.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; gypsiferous sand; 3 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 423 um/s; very rapid permeability; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 very fine pores; 40 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout and 2 percent very fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter, saturated paste; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01268
    Cy1—100 to 140 centimeters (39.4 to 55.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, moist; gypsiferous sand; 1 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 423 um/s; very rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 35 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter, saturated paste; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01269
    Cy2—140 to 200 centimeters (55.1 to 78.7 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; gypsiferous sand; 1 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 423 um/s; very rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 09N01270