IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reakor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991-NM005-002-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1991-NM005-002-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0333
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64572
  • 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: 33.2469861
  • Std. Longitude: -104.3996083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet E and 2000 feet N of the SW corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM005—Chaves
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-MAF—Marfa, Texas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM666—Chaves County, New Mexico, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33104-B4—Dexter West, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clarence Chavez
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Reakor
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/2017
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reakor
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—18

    18—71

    71—165

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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

    1

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    1067

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    90

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; very fine and fine low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; L of Field texture class; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02045; observed in trench
    A2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; very fine and fine low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; L of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02046; observed in trench
    Bw1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; very fine and fine low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; CL of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02047; observed in trench
    Bw2—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; very fine and fine low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; CL of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02048; observed in trench
    Bk1—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; loam; weak massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; very fine and fine low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; L of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02049; observed in trench
    Bk2—102 to 165 centimeters (40.2 to 65.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 8/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), moist; loam; weak massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; very fine and fine low-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; L of Field texture class; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 92P02050; observed in trench