IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lechuguilla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12NM015018
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM015018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56645
  • 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: 32.2644768
  • Std. Longitude: -104.3800735
  • 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 Aridic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lechuguilla
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Lithic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 33cm
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent flat angular indurated 150- to 380-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 10.00 percent flat angular indurated 2- to 150-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat angular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat angular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 15.00 percent nonflat angular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/14/2012 (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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    33 -

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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

    54

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    1200.9

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    10

    355

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    230

    15

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    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; very stony loam; 25 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial and 2.0 fine tubular and 2.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-165-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk—11 to 33 centimeters (4.3 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; very cobbly loam; 25 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent very fine irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-165-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03018; observed in pit, small
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small