IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Queen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12NM015036
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM015036
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T12NM015034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8034
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56658
  • 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: 32.1076050
  • Std. Longitude: -104.6725922
  • Datum: WGS84
  • MLRA: 70D—Southern Desert Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Aaron Miller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Lithic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Queen
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Lithic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 22 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • 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: 4/24/2012 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    22 -

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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

    38

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    1933

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    225

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very stony loam; 20 percent sand; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.2 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-165-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03043; observed in pit, small
    Bt—13 to 22 centimeters (5.1 to 8.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; stony clay loam; 25 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial and 0.2 medium tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-165-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—22 centimeters (8.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small