IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Torripsamments
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NM035004
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM035004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7977
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72978
  • 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: 32.8935000
  • Std. Longitude: -106.2625278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 S
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 2,654 feet south and 2,124 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Otero County, New Mexico; 12.48 miles northeast of the intersection of RR7 and RR10
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM035—Otero
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-LAC—Las Cruces, New Mexico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM688—White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Parts of Dona Ana, Lincoln, Otero, Sierra and Socorro Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32106-D3—White Sands NE, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Cates
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Hypergypsic, thermic Typic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Typic Torripsamments
  • Taxonomic Class - Hypergypsic, thermic Typic Torripsamments
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gypsiferous eolian sands
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: barchan dune field
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R042BB002NM Gyp Duneland Barren, Desert Shrub

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    episaturation

    0—18

    165—200

    —18—

    —35—
    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

    15

    5

    —

    1219

    —

    260

    203

    —

    210

    20

    —

    —

    21

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Cyy1—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); white (2.5Y 9/1) crushed, white (10YR 8.5/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous coarse sand; 1 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 98 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; many (8.0) very fine interstitial pores; 90 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N02870; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cyy2—17 to 150 centimeters (6.7 to 59.1 inches); white (10YR 8.5/1) crushed, white (10YR 8/1) crushed, moist; gypsiferous coarse sand; 1 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 98 percent clay; strong massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; many (8.0) very fine interstitial pores; 90 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N02871; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Ayyb—150 to 165 centimeters (59.1 to 65.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) crushed, light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, moist; gypsiferous sand; 1 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 98 percent clay; strong massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; common (3.0) very fine tubular and many (8.0) very fine interstitial pores; 90 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N02872; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small