IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mespun
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982AZ017003
  • User Pedon ID: 82AZ017003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0882
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51668
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 35.8613892
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1983337
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2250 feet E and 2100 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Navajo County, Arizona., .5 mi S of Keams Canyon
  • State: Arizona
  • County: AZ017—Navajo

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.D.Nettleton,R.C.Herriman,C.Glocker,R.Ahrens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mespun
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed Ustic Torripsamments
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: dune
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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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    1891

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    30

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine platy structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04571. common fine roots
    1C1—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); 7.5YR 5/ (7.5YR 5/), interior, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04572. Few thin cutans on sand grains.; common very fine roots
    1C2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); 7.5YR 5/ (7.5YR 5/), interior, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; fine sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04573. Few coarse roots; weak thin discontinuous sandy loam bands.; common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1C3—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); 7.5YR 5/ (7.5YR 5/), interior, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; fine sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04574. few very fine and fine roots
    1C4—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); 7.5YR 5/ (7.5YR 5/), interior, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; fine sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red. Lab sample # 82P04575. few very fine roots