IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Apache
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979NM033006
  • User Pedon ID: 79NM033006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0385
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47118
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 35.8861122
  • Std. Longitude: -104.8827744
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: Half way up the SE side of Maxon Crater near the center
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM033—Mora
  • MLRA: 70—Pecos-Canadian Plains and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Sellnow and G. Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Apache
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Apache
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, mesic Lithic Haplustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—33

    18—33

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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

    7

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    2122

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    135

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    1A11—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; extremely stony loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02041. many very fine and fine roots
    1A12—6 to 18 centimeters (2.4 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; stony loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine and medium tubular pores; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 1 percent fine lime masses; 7 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 24 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02042. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common very fine and fine roots
    1B2—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; stony clay loam; weak and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine and medium tubular pores; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 11 percent fine lime masses; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02043. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common very fine and fine roots
    1R—33 to 35 centimeters (13.0 to 13.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior unweathered bedrock; , dry, carbonate coats on upper surfaces of peds or rocks; fragments. Lab sample # 79P02044. A few pockets of carbonated accumulation on the wavy bedrock contact.