IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lovington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010NM041007
  • User Pedon ID: S2010NM041007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10NM041007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0908
  • 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: 33.8427773
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6922226
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 S
  • Range: 31 E
  • Section: 28
  • 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-G6—Schram Lake, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Todd Carr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, 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 - Lovington
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lovington
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy lacustrine deposits derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: playa step
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Ponding: rare ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/2010 (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

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    GUSA2

    OPIM

    OPUNT

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Opuntia imbricata

    Opuntia

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    broom snakeweed

    tree cholla

    pricklypear

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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—26

    26—47

    47—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

    0.5

    31

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    1368

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    270

    406

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    200

    16

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; 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; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; semideformable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—26 to 47 centimeters (10.2 to 18.5 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; semideformable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—47 to 76 centimeters (18.5 to 29.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; semideformable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 2 percent fine distinct cylindrical noncoherent cemented pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry, carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix and 18 percent medium distinct irregular very strongly coherent cemented pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; semideformable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct cylindrical very strongly coherent cemented pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry, carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix and 25 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 7 percent very coarse distinct spherical very strongly coherent cemented pink (7.5YR 8/3), dry, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—102 to 153 centimeters (40.2 to 60.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; semideformable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 2 percent coarse distinct spherical very strongly coherent cemented pink (7.5YR 8/3), dry, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries in matrix and 7 percent medium distinct cylindrical very strongly coherent cemented pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry, carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix and 30 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented pink (7.5YR 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
    2Bk4—153 to 203 centimeters (60.2 to 79.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; semideformable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry, masses of reduced iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 2 percent fine distinct spherical very strongly coherent cemented pink (7.5YR 8/3), dry, carbonate concretions with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small