IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pastura
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NM057001
  • User Pedon ID: 94NM057001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0784
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66957
  • 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: 34.9930573
  • Std. Longitude: -105.4113922
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet south and 875 feet east of northwest corner
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM057—Torrance
  • MLRA: 70—Pecos-Canadian Plains and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM674—Torrance Area, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pastura
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pastura
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, mesic, shallow Ustic Petrocalcid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/1994
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/18/1994 (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
    • 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

    3

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    1919

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    90

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium platy parts to moderate coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06138
    Bw—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; cobbly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06139
    Bk—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 21 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06140
    2Bkm—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06141. indurated.
    2Bk1—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3), pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 21 percent dendritic carbonate masses; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06142
    2Bk2—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), white (7.5YR 8/1), dry; extremely cobbly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky; 21 percent dendritic carbonate masses; 90 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 94P06143. 90% of carb nodules (cobble sized) bordrs being petrocalcic.