IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fragua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013NM0315001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013NM0315001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 35.3539167
  • Std. Longitude: -107.8835000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13 N
  • Range: 10 W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 1,997 feet north and 2,366 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: McKinley County, New Mexico; Approximately 4.4 miles northwest of the intersection of State Road 605 and County Road 23.
  • Map Unit: 315—Flugle-Fragua complex, 1 to 10 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM031—McKinley
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-GRA—Grants, New Mexico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM692—McKinley County Area, New Mexico, McKinley County and Parts of Cibola and San Juan Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35107-C8—Bluewater, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeff Goats
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fragua
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/2013
  • Classifier - Greg Cates
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: fan piedmont
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • 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
    R036XB111NM Sandy Slopes

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/29/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jeff Goats
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion, water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—17

    17—45

    —17—

    —28—
    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

    5

    152

    —

    2168

    —

    190

    330

    —

    125

    11

    —

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    12

    —

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    A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout and common (5.0) fine roots throughout; few (2.0) very fine irregular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; very dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—6 to 17 centimeters (2.4 to 6.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; few (2.0) very fine roots throughout; few (0.5) very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; very dry when described;
    Bt—17 to 45 centimeters (6.7 to 17.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed, moist; fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; few (0.2) very fine tubular pores; 3 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; very dry when described;
    C1—45 to 100 centimeters (17.7 to 39.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed, moist; loamy fine sand; 80 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 9 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; few (0.2) very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; very dry when described;
    C2—100 to 150 centimeters (39.4 to 59.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; loamy fine sand; 85 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 7 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; very dry when described;