IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Choza
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12NM015013
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM015013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56641
  • User Project ID: 2023 - SW-SAN - Multi-MLRA
  • Project Name: MLRA 36 - MLRA 42C - MLRA 35 - MLRA 48A - MIR Lab Data for Type Location Soil Samples
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 32.0512772
  • Std. Longitude: -104.6374435
  • Datum: WGS84
  • MLRA: 70D—Southern Desert Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM614—Eddy Area, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Aaron Miller, Logan Peterson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Choza
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 18 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/13/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    Bk

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    18

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

    Bk

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    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

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

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    18 -

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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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    1382

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    240

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    230

    14.5

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very cobbly loam; 40 percent sand; 17 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine tubular and 2.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-165-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-165-250 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 12N03009; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; extremely flaggy loam; 35 percent sand; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 6 percent fine and medium irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules on bottom of rock fragments; 3 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-165-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-165-250 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments and 7 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter calcrete (caliche) fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 12N03010; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkm—18 centimeters (7.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small