IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tucumcari
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NM037004
  • User Pedon ID: 91NM037004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991NM037004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0532
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63574
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 34.8841667
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9124985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM037—Quay
  • MLRA: 70—Pecos-Canadian Plains and Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Ustic Haplargids
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tucumcari
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montoya V
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1991 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    HIMU2

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Hilaria mutica

    blue grama

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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

    0

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    1372

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    135

    38

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    29

    39

    19

    30

    40

    20

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    9156

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 vesicular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03079. Few small pebbles on surface - and in profile; many fine roots; many very fine roots
    Bt1—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 vesicular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03080. many fine roots; many very fine roots
    Bt2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay; weak fine prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 vesicular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03081. many fine roots; many very fine roots
    Bt3—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay; weak fine prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03082. common fine roots; common very fine roots
    Btk1—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay; weak fine prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 vesicular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03083. common fine roots
    Btk2—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay; weak fine prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 vesicular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P03084. common fine roots
    Btk3—122 to 160 centimeters (48.0 to 63.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 vesicular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 91P03085. Few calcium concretions in horizon #7 up to 2 cm; few very fine roots