IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fruitland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981NM045001
  • User Pedon ID: 81NM045001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0599
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 36.8022232
  • Std. Longitude: -108.3097229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30n
  • Range: 14w
  • Section: 21
  • Location Description: San Juan County, NM: Between Tube 15 and Tube 1 of Craig Kallsen's 1982 Line Source Experiment on San Juan Branch
  • Map Unit: BC—Badland-Rock outcrop-Persayo complex, extremely steep
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM045—San Juan
  • MLRA: 35—Colorado Plateau
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM618—San Juan County, New Mexico, Eastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36108-G3—Youngs Lake, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. F. Ratliff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fruitland
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fruitland
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03550. Few coarse fragments less than 1 cm in diameter; few pockets of calcareous material.
    1A12—10 to 51 centimeters (3.9 to 20.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03551. Few rounded coarse fragments less than 1 cm in diameter.
    1C1ca—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03552. Estimated 5 to 10 percent by volume of rounded coarse fragments that are partially coated with white CaCO3.
    1C2—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, moist; sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03553. Few fine coarse fragments.
    1C3ca—102 to 137 centimeters (40.2 to 53.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03554. Few thin lamella; estimated 5 percent by volume white sft mass of CaCO3.
    1C4—137 to 191 centimeters (53.9 to 75.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P03555. Few fine coarse fragments.
    1C5—191 to 244 centimeters (75.2 to 96.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, moist; sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P03556. Few thin lamella.