IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penwell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011NM041031
  • User Pedon ID: S2011NM041031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11NM041031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0468
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47556
  • 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: 33.7128792
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3849792
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM041—Roosevelt
  • MLRA: 77D—Southern High Plains, Southwestern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33103-F4—Milnesand NW, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MLRA-77 Soil Survey Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Siliceous, thermic Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Penwell
  • 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 - Penwell
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: dune
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Geology: Sand Dune formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/7/2011 (actual site observation 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFI2

    QUHA3

    SPCR

    SPGI

    Artemisia filifolia

    Quercus havardii

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Sporobolus giganteus

    sand sagebrush

    Havard oak

    sand dropseed

    giant dropseed

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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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

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    1296

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 medium roots in cracks and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    C1—15 to 83 centimeters (5.9 to 32.7 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; fine sand; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 6.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    C2—83 to 127 centimeters (32.7 to 50.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; fine sand; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    C3—127 to 180 centimeters (50.0 to 70.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; fine sand; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 4.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    C4—180 to 203 centimeters (70.9 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent.