IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peligro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NM035005
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM035005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NM035005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7978
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73122
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 32.6888889
  • Std. Longitude: -106.3038611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 S
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 2
  • 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-F3—Lake Lucero NE, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dave White
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-gypseous, gypsic, 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 - Peligro
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-gypseous, gypsic, thermic Leptic Haplogypsids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gypsiferous eolian deposits
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/2012 (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

    BOBR

    COGR

    EPHED

    LYCIU

    Bouteloua breviseta

    Coldenia greggii

    Ephedra

    Lycium

    gypsum grama

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    jointfir

    desert-thorn

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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—6

    6—170

    6—170

    —6—

    —164—

    —164—
    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

    7

    17

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    1229

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    180

    203

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    210

    20

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    21

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    Ayy—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); light gray (7.5YR 7/1) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine vesicular pores; 40 percent prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, gypsum coats on bottom faces of peds; 20 percent coarse irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout and 70 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Byy1—6 to 35 centimeters (2.4 to 13.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, moist; gypsiferous loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.5) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine irregular pores; 90 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02874; observed in pit, small
    Byy2—35 to 144 centimeters (13.8 to 56.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, moist; gypsiferous coarse sand; 99 percent sand; 1 percent silt; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine irregular pores; 90 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02875; observed in pit, small
    2Byy3—144 to 172 centimeters (56.7 to 67.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, moist; gypsiferous fine sand; 95 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (6.0) very fine irregular pores; 90 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N02876; observed in pit, small