IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Transformer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NM035010
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM035010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NM035010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7983
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72773
  • 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: 32.8712500
  • Std. Longitude: -106.2886944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 S
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 87 feet north and 305 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Otero County, New Mexico; 11.49 miles east 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-G3—Heart of the Sands, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: 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 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/2012
  • 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: gyspiferous eolian sands
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: playa step
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • 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
    R042BB029NM Gyp Playa Step, Desert Shrub

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/2012 (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

    ALOC2

    SPAI

    Allenrolfea occidentalis

    Sporobolus airoides

    iodinebush

    alkali sacaton

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

    ochric epipedon

    salt accumulations

    redox concentrations

    endosaturation

    0—18

    0—1

    0—42

    60—152

    —18—

    —1—

    —42—

    —92—
    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

    1

    152

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    1211

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    270

    203

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    210

    20

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    21

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    Anyyz—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) crushed, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 25 percent very coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented masses of reduced iron with sharp boundaries on vertical faces of peds; 95 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; none effervescence, by hydrogen peroxide, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cnyyz1—1 to 42 centimeters (0.4 to 16.5 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) crushed, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sand; 95 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; few (0.3) very fine roots throughout and few (0.3) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; many (8.0) fine interstitial and common (3.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 95 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; wet when described; observed in pit, small
    Cnyyz2—42 to 82 centimeters (16.5 to 32.3 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) crushed, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sand; 90 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 4 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; many (8.0) fine interstitial pores; 95 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; wet, non-satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    Cnyyz3—82 to 152 centimeters (32.3 to 59.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3) crushed, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sand; 95 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; many (10.0) fine interstitial pores; 95 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small