IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Transformer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NM035003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM035003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NM035003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7976
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71909
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 32.8930556
  • Std. Longitude: -106.2627778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 S
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 30
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32106-H3—Heart of the Sands NE, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Cates
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Hypergypsic, thermic Oxyaquic Torripsamments
  • 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 - Transformer
  • Taxonomic Class - Hypergypsic, thermic Oxyaquic Torripsamments
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gypsiferous eolian sands
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: interdune
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for very brief periods begining in jul
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    EPTO

    SPAI

    Ephedra torreyana

    Sporobolus airoides

    Torrey's jointfir

    alkali sacaton

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

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    0—18

    85—200

    85—200

    —18—

    —115—

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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

    0

    152

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    1219

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    0

    203

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    303

    20

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    21

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    Cyy1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8.5/2) crushed, white (2.5Y 9.5/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous fine sand; 95 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) fine roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; many (8.0) fine interstitial pores; ; 90 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02866; observed in pit, small
    Cyy2—14 to 46 centimeters (5.5 to 18.1 inches);, white (10YR 8.5/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sand; 98 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 1 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.2) very fine roots throughout; many (8.0) very fine interstitial pores; 90 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02867; observed in pit, small
    2Ayyb—46 to 62 centimeters (18.1 to 24.4 inches);, pale orange yellow (10YR 9/2) crushed, moist; gypsiferous fine sand; 95 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 3 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.2) very fine roots throughout; many (8.0) very fine interstitial and common (4.0) fine tubular pores; 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, organic stains; 90 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02868; observed in pit, small
    2Cyyb—62 to 85 centimeters (24.4 to 33.5 inches);, white (10YR 8/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous fine sand; 95 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 3 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.2) very fine roots throughout; many (8.0) very fine interstitial and few (0.2) tubular pores; 90 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N02869; observed in pit, small