IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Yesum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NM035001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM035001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NM035001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7974
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72996
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 33.0625556
  • Std. Longitude: -106.1439444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 S
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 65 feet north and 1,951 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Otero County, New Mexico; 1.09 miles southeast of the intersection of RR6 and RR9
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM035—Otero
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-LAS—Las Cruces, New Mexico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM688—White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Parts of Dona Ana, Lincoln, Otero, Sierra and Socorro Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33106-A2—Tularosa Peak, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Cates
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-gypseous, hypergypsic, thermic Leptic Haplogypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Yesum
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-gypseous, hypergypsic, thermic Leptic Haplogypsids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/30/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gypsiferous eolian deposits
  • Landscape: piedmont slope
  • Landform: fan piedmont
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R042BB006NM Gyp Upland, Desert Shrub

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/30/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion rill
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCA2

    SPAI

    SPNE

    Atriplex canescens

    Sporobolus airoides

    Sporobolus nealleyi

    fourwing saltbush

    alkali sacaton

    gyp dropseed

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    gypsum accumulations

    gypsic horizon

    0—18

    5—65

    5—152

    —18—

    —60—

    —147—
    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

    152

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    1268

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    265

    203

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    210

    20

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    21

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    Ay—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; gypsiferous fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and common (3.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 80 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02857; observed in pit, small
    By—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout and few (0.1) coarse roots throughout; common (3.0) medium low-continuity dendritic tubular and common (3.0) fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 80 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 10 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02858; observed in pit, small
    Byy1—15 to 65 centimeters (5.9 to 25.6 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/3) crushed, pink (7.5YR 7/4) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy loam; 82 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; few (0.3) very fine roots throughout and few (0.3) fine roots throughout; few (0.3) fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 80 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 5 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02859; observed in pit, small
    Byy2—65 to 100 centimeters (25.6 to 39.4 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, moist; gypsiferous fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; few (0.1) fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 80 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02860; observed in pit, small
    Byy3—100 to 152 centimeters (39.4 to 59.8 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3) crushed, pink (7.5YR 7/4) crushed, moist; gypsiferous loamy sand; 85 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 9 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated and 80 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N02861; observed in pit, small