IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tornero
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010NM041006
  • User Pedon ID: S2010NM041006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10NM041006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0907
  • 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: 33.9061127
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7127762
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 S
  • Range: 31 E
  • Section: 5
  • 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: 33103-H6—Elida, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Todd Carr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tornero
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tornero
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy eolian deposits derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: playa dune
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/4/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOER4

    BOGR2

    YUCCA

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Yucca

    black grama

    blue grama

    yucca

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—20

    20—80

    145—203

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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

    1

    61

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    1369

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    113

    406

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    195

    16

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; semideformable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 16 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; semideformable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 28 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—51 to 80 centimeters (20.1 to 31.5 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; semideformable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 22 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Ab—80 to 98 centimeters (31.5 to 38.6 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; semideformable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bkb1—98 to 130 centimeters (38.6 to 51.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; semideformable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 18 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 6 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bkb2—130 to 145 centimeters (51.2 to 57.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; semideformable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 13 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bkb3—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; semideformable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 22 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 4 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small