IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Neso
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011NM041033
  • User Pedon ID: S2011NM041033
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11NM041033
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0470
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47558
  • 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: 34.5262184
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8734818
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM041—Roosevelt
  • MLRA: 70B—Pecos and Canadian River Basins
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34103-E7—House SE, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MLRA-77 Soil Survey Staff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, thermic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Neso
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Neso
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 3/9/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous sandy and gravelly valley side alluvium derived from limestone, sandstone, and shale
  • Landscape: breaks
  • Landform: valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 27.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 100-millimeter quartzite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/9/2011 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACGR

    ARIST

    BOCU

    BOGR2

    GUSA2

    PRGLT

    SPORO

    YUCCA

    Acacia greggii

    Aristida

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana

    Sporobolus

    Yucca

    catclaw acacia

    threeawn

    sideoats grama

    blue grama

    broom snakeweed

    western honey mesquite

    dropseed

    yucca

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

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    38 - 70

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—15

    15—38

    38—70

    38—203

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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

    6

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    1380

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    356

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    190

    16

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-12-20 millimeter quartzite fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    Bk—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; low toughness; low excavation difficulty; 13 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 2 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 5 percent very fine platy strongly coherent cemented carbonate laminae around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 10-30-76 millimeter conglomerate, calcareous fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-20-76 millimeter quartzite fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bkkm—38 to 70 centimeters (15.0 to 27.6 inches); white (7.5YR 8/1), white (7.5YR 8/1), moist; cemented material; massive; carbonates present, nonsticky, nonplastic; high toughness; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    2C1—70 to 133 centimeters (27.6 to 52.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 6 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; high toughness; high excavation difficulty; 5 percent very fine prominent platy strongly coherent cemented carbonate laminae with sharp boundaries around rock fragments; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-100-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 10-40-76 millimeter conglomerate, calcareous fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-30-76 millimeter quartzite fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    2C2—133 to 175 centimeters (52.4 to 68.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 7 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; high toughness; high excavation difficulty; 5 percent very fine prominent platy strongly coherent cemented carbonate laminae with sharp boundaries around rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-170-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-25-76 millimeter quartzite fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    2C3—175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); pink (5YR 7/3), light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 13 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; high toughness; high excavation difficulty; 5 percent very fine prominent platy strongly coherent cemented carbonate laminae with sharp boundaries around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-170-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-25-76 millimeter quartzite fragments; violent effervescence.