IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Delphos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008NM041002
  • User Pedon ID: S2008NM041002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08NM041-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0514
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20006
  • 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: 34.3637848
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8303299
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2 N
  • Range: 30 E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 30, T. 2 N., R. 30 E.
  • Map Unit: DeB—Delphos loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM041—Roosevelt
  • MLRA: 77D—Southern High Plains, Southwestern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM041—Roosevelt County, New Mexico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34103-C8—Tolar SW, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Todd Carr, Ken Scheffe, Craig Byrd, Wayne Hudnall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Delphos
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Delphos
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits over calcareous loamy lacustrine deposits of Quartenary age.
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: basin floor on dune
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARIST

    BOGR2

    BOSA

    GUSA2

    YUCCA

    Aristida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bothriochloa saccharoides

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Yucca

    threeawn

    blue grama

    silver bluestem

    broom snakeweed

    yucca

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—12

    3—115

    33—115

    115—210

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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

    2

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    1293

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    0

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; loamy fine sand; 5 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 1 percent fine carbonate masses throughout; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bk1—12 to 33 centimeters (4.7 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 8 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses between peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bk2—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); white (7.5YR 8/1), light gray (7.5YR 7/1), moist; loam; 19 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 10 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses between peds; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bk3—64 to 96 centimeters (25.2 to 37.8 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate coarse platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 5 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses between peds; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bk4—96 to 115 centimeters (37.8 to 45.3 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium platy parts to moderate medium granular structure; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses between peds; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    3Eb—115 to 146 centimeters (45.3 to 57.5 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; fine sand; 5 percent clay; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    3Btb1—146 to 174 centimeters (57.5 to 68.5 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent fine spherical iron depletions with diffuse boundaries on surfaces along pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. About 15% old root channels and pores are stripped of iron and have clean sand grains
    3Btb2—174 to 210 centimeters (68.5 to 82.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent. About5% old root channels and pores are stripped of iron and have clean sand grains