IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Haplosalids
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NM035012
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM035012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012NM035012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7985
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72957
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 32.8710278
  • Std. Longitude: -106.3072500
  • 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
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM688—White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Parts of Dona Ana, Lincoln, Otero, Sierra and Socorro Counties

    • 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 - 5/31/2012
  • 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 sands over gypsiferous lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: shoreline
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    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

    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

    1

    152

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    1204

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    0

    203

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    210

    20

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    21

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    Cnyyz—0 to 67 centimeters (0.0 to 26.4 inches); variegated, 75 percent pale yellow (5Y 7/3) crushed and 25 percent dark bluish gray (10B 4/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy clay loam; 11 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 24 percent clay; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct irregular mottles; structureless massive; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 95 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cnyyzg—67 to 82 centimeters (26.4 to 32.3 inches);, light olive gray (5Y 6/2) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy clay loam; 65 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 26 percent clay; structureless massive; very hard, extremely firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 85 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Cnyyz—82 to 104 centimeters (32.3 to 40.9 inches); variegated, 85 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) crushed and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy clay loam; 70 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 90 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Cnyyzg—104 to 200 centimeters (40.9 to 78.7 inches);, bluish gray (5PB 6/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sandy clay loam; 65 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 24 percent clay; structureless massive; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 20 cm with a width of 8 cm; 85 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small