IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mudgetts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12NM015028
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM015028
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56650
  • Print Date: 11/13/2025

    • 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: 32.1794815
  • Std. Longitude: -104.5132980
  • Datum: WGS84
  • MLRA: 70D—Southern Desert Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM614—Eddy Area, New MexicoNM780—Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Logan Peterson
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mudgetts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/2012
  • 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: 3/22/2012 (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
    • 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

    Bk1

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    49

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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

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    49

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    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

    ec meter, 1:1 water

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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

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    1382.9

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    400

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; loam; 40 percent sand; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 5.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine tubular and 0.1 fine interstitial pores; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-25 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03023; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—20 to 49 centimeters (7.9 to 19.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 33 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent very fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03024; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—49 to 160 centimeters (19.3 to 63.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 32 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.3 medium roots; 0.1 fine interstitial pores; 8 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-5-10 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter. Lab sample # 12N03025; moist when described; observed in pit, small