IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Choza
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12NM015014
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM015014
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T12NM015014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56642
  • 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: 32.0513878
  • Std. Longitude: -104.6372528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • MLRA: 70D—Southern Desert Foothills

    • 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 16 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: linear
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    16 -

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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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    1378.6

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    240

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    A—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly loam; 30 percent sand; 17 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.3 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-165-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 12N03011; observed in pit, small
    Bk—2 to 16 centimeters (0.8 to 6.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; extremely flaggy loam; 30 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium and coarse irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-165-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 12N03012; observed in pit, small
    Bkm—16 centimeters (6.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small