IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Haplosalids
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NM035009
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM035009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NM035009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7982
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71929
  • 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: 32.8710556
  • Std. Longitude: -106.3088333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 S
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 34
  • 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-G3—Heart of the Sands, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Cates
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-gypseous, hypergypsic, thermic Typic Haplosalids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Typic Haplosalids
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-gypseous, hypergypsic, thermic Typic Haplosalids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gypsiferous eolian sands over gypsiferous lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: relict lakebed
  • 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: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for long periods begining in jul
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/30/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALOC2

    Allenrolfea occidentalis

    iodinebush

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—18

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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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    1205

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    0

    203

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    210

    20

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    21

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    Cyy—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); pale orange yellow (10YR 9/2) crushed, pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sand; 95 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 2 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (8.0) fine interstitial pores; 90 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02891; observed in pit, small
    2Cnyyz1—22 to 38 centimeters (8.7 to 15.0 inches);, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 22 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (8.0) fine interstitial pores; 90 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Cnyyz2—38 to 125 centimeters (15.0 to 49.2 inches);, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) crushed, moist; gypsiferous silt loam; 20 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 20 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 95 percent very fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Cnyyzg1—125 to 152 centimeters (49.2 to 59.8 inches); variegated, 60 percent greenish gray (5BG 5/1) crushed and 40 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous silt loam; 20 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 25 percent clay; massive; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 90 percent very fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Cnyyzg2—152 to 165 centimeters (59.8 to 65.0 inches); variegated, 50 percent dark greenish gray (10Y 4/1) crushed and 30 percent dark greenish gray (5GY 3/1) crushed and 20 percent light greenish gray (10Y 7/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous silt loam; 50 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 25 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent medium lenticular selenite crystals throughout and 80 percent very fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Cnyyzg3—165 to 200 centimeters (65.0 to 78.7 inches); variegated, 60 percent bluish gray (10B 5/1) crushed and 40 percent bluish gray (5PB 5/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 28 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 80 percent very fine gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small