IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gyplaya
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NM035007
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM035007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7980
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72808
  • 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: 32.8843889
  • Std. Longitude: -106.2277222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 S
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 846 feet south and 1,972 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Otero County, New Mexico; 15.42 miles northeast of the intersection of RR7 and RR10
  • 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: 32106-H2—Lost River, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Cates
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, hypergypsic, thermic Typic Aquisalids
  • 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 - Gyplaya
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, hypergypsic, thermic Typic Aquisalids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/2012
  • 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: gyspiferous eolian sands
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: playa
  • 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: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods begining in jul
  • 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
    R042BB008NM Gyp Playa, Desert Shrub

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/3/2012 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    salic

    noncoherent

    0 - 60

    - 60 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    salic horizon

    salt accumulations

    0—18

    0—60

    0—60

    —18—

    —60—

    —60—
    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

    —

    1217

    —

    0

    203

    —

    210

    20

    —

    —

    21

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Anz—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); white (7.5YR 9/1) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/3) crushed, moist; loamy sand; 97 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 92 um/s; rapid permeability; 90 percent fine noncoherent cemented salt crystals throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02881; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Anyz—1 to 3 centimeters (0.4 to 1.2 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/3) crushed, moist; gypsiferous loamy sand; 92 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 5 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; carbonate, finely disseminated and gypsum, finely disseminated and salt, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02882; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cnyyz1—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) crushed, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 16 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; gypsum, finely disseminated and salt, finely disseminated; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cnyyz2—6 to 60 centimeters (2.4 to 23.6 inches); 75 percent white (2.5Y 8/1) crushed and 25 percent pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) crushed, 75 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) crushed and 25 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sand; 98 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 1 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; many (8.0) fine interstitial pores; salt, finely disseminated and 80 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; wet when described; observed in pit, small