IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Haplodurids
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012AZ005002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012AZ005002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012AZ005002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7967
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55388
  • 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: 35.5470278
  • Std. Longitude: -111.3643333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ005—Coconino
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: AZ631—Coconino County Area, Arizona, Central Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Harrigan, H. Hosler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Haplodurids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cambidic Haplodurids
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Haplodurids
  • PSC - 0 to 18 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/14/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits derived from sandstone over alluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 107cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/14/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • 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

    CHRYS9

    FALLU

    HIJA

    JUOS

    Chrysothamnus

    Fallugia

    Hilaria jamesii

    Juniperus osteosperma

    rabbitbrush

    Apache plume

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    Utah juniper

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    duripan

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    indurated

    18 - 44

    107 - 132

    - 26 -

    - 25 -

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

    duripan

    18—44

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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

    7

    17

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    4779

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    300

    203

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    165

    13

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loamy sand; 9 percent clay; loose, loose, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 12N02825; observed in pit, small
    Bqm1—12 to 34 centimeters (4.7 to 13.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; loamy sand; 5 percent clay; mottles; massive; extremely hard, very firm by silica, slightly sticky, nonplastic; very high excavation difficulty; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) fine roots; common (3.0) very fine vesicular pores; 25 percent irregular very strongly coherent cemented silica concretions around rock fragments and 25 percent irregular very strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments; nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter duripan fragments fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 12N02826; observed in pit, small
    Bqm2—34 to 62 centimeters (13.4 to 24.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; loamy sand; 5 percent clay; mottles; massive; extremely hard, very firm by silica, slightly sticky, nonplastic; very high excavation difficulty; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) fine roots; common (3.0) very fine vesicular pores; 25 percent irregular very strongly coherent cemented silica concretions around rock fragments and 25 percent irregular very strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions around rock fragments; nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter duripan fragments fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 12N02827; observed in pit, small
    2C1—62 to 88 centimeters (24.4 to 34.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loamy sand; 5 percent clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm; high excavation difficulty; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) fine roots; few (3.0) very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 25 percent irregular very strongly coherent cemented silica concretions around rock fragments; nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter duripan fragments fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 12N02828; observed in pit, small
    2C2—88 to 127 centimeters (34.6 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loamy sand; 4 percent clay; massive; very hard, extremely firm; moderate excavation difficulty; common (3.0) fine irregular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear boundary. Lab sample # 12N02829; observed in pit, small
    2C3—127 to 158 centimeters (50.0 to 62.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; gravelly coarse sand; 4 percent clay; massive; very hard, extremely firm; common (3.0) very fine irregular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 12N02830; observed in pit, small