IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016NM007001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016NM007001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2016NM007001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N2124
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87481
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 36.9756700
  • Std. Longitude: -104.4774200
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM007—Colfax
  • MLRA: 70A—High Plateaus of the Southwestern Great Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Logan Peterson, Aaron Miller, Otto Oppenheimer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: fan
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 73cm
  • Geology: Dakota Sandstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Logan Peterson, Aaron Miller
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    BRIN2

    CAREX

    DAGL

    JUNCU

    LECI4

    PASM

    POPR

    CIAR4

    CONVO

    HEAN3

    MEPO3

    RUMEX

    TARAX

    Bromus inermis

    Carex

    Dactylis glomerata

    Juncus

    Leymus cinereus

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Poa pratensis

    Cirsium arvense

    Convolvulus

    Helianthus annuus

    Medicago polymorpha

    Rumex

    Taraxacum

    smooth brome

    sedge

    orchardgrass

    rush

    basin wildrye

    western wheatgrass

    Kentucky bluegrass

    Canada thistle

    bindweed

    common sunflower

    burclover

    dock

    dandelion

    grass/grasslike

    grass/grasslike

    grass/grasslike

    grass/grasslike

    grass/grasslike

    grass/grasslike

    grass/grasslike

    forb

    forb

    forb

    forb

    forb

    forb

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    73 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—73

    5—73

    5—73

    —73—

    —68—

    —68—
    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

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    2271

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    210

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 30 percent clay; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 2.0 medium tubular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N09681; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bg1—5 to 34 centimeters (2.0 to 13.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; 30 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 26 percent clay; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 13 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N09682; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bg2—34 to 73 centimeters (13.4 to 28.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; stratified stratified clay loam; 60 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 28 percent clay; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.2 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; 0.5 medium tubular pores; 1 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented manganese masses with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores and 3 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores; 8 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N09683; wet when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    R—73 to 98 centimeters (28.7 to 38.6 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry