IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Douro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S13NM041002
  • User Pedon ID: S2013NM041002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0320
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70967
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 33.7555000
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6469444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM041—Roosevelt
  • MLRA: 77D—Southern High Plains, Southwestern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SSS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Ustalfic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Douro
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, thermic Ustalfic Petrocalcids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/8/2013
  • Classifier - T. Craig Byrd
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits over strongly cemented lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MLRA 77 SSS
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    78 - 100

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—20

    20—78

    78—100

    —20—

    —58—

    —22—
    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

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    1365

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; common fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01688
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low excavation difficulty; common fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01689. continuous - phpvsfiid 1237068; continuous - phpvsfiid 1237068
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; common fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01690. continuous - phpvsfiid 1237069; continuous - phpvsfiid 1237069
    Bt3—56 to 78 centimeters (22.0 to 30.7 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01691. continuous - phpvsfiid 1237070; continuous - phpvsfiid 1237070
    Bkkm—78 to 100 centimeters (30.7 to 39.4 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8.5/2) interior, pinkish white (7.5YR 8.5/2) interior, moist; cemented material; massive; carbonates present; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; sixth stage carbonates developed in the fine earth fraction; violent effervescence.