IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Petrocalcids
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016NM013013
  • User Pedon ID: S2016NM013013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2016NM013013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0861
  • User Project ID: JORN_014_NEON
  • Project Name: Jornada LTER
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 32.6047750
  • Std. Longitude: -106.8022167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the SW corner coordinate 32.604746, -106.802255, the pit centroid is 3.8m northeast (45 degrees)
  • Map Unit: OR—Onite-Pintura complex
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM013—Dona Ana
  • 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: NM690—Dona Ana County Area, New Mexico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32106-E7—Summerford Mountain, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dave White
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Typic Petrocalcids
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Petrocalcids
  • Taxon Kind - taxon above family
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/2016
  • Classifier - Greg Cates
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - shrub
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - perennial grass
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits and/or alluvium
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: fan piedmont
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 1
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - JORN_001
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 45
  • Plot Baseline Length - 4
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Gordon Michaud

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dave White
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCA2

    BOER4

    DAPU7

    GUSA2

    MUPO2

    PRGL2

    SELE6

    SPFL2

    Atriplex canescens

    Bouteloua eriopoda

    Dasyochloa pulchella

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Muhlenbergia porteri

    Prosopis glandulosa

    Setaria leucopila

    Sporobolus flexuosus

    fourwing saltbush

    black grama

    low woollygrass

    broom snakeweed

    bush muhly

    honey mesquite

    streambed bristlegrass

    mesa dropseed

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

    petrocalcic

    indurated

    46 -

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

    cambic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    4—46

    46—

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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

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    1326

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    193

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    210

    16

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    C—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 9 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (10.0) very fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03818; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk—4 to 46 centimeters (1.6 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 70 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 2 percent fine distinct threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03819; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkkm—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); cemented material; indurated by carbonates; fragments.; dry when described; observed in pit, small