IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharvana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S13NM041004
  • User Pedon ID: S2013NM041004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S13NM041004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0048
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68970
  • 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: 34.2427222
  • Std. Longitude: -103.4491389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM041—Roosevelt
  • MLRA: 77C—Southern High Plains, Southern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Craig Byrd
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Paleustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharvana
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Paleustalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 11 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/21/2013
  • Classifier - T. Craig Byrd
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits over strongly cemented lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: SSS
  • 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

    ARIST

    BOCU

    BOGR2

    SPORO

    Aristida

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Sporobolus

    threeawn

    sideoats grama

    blue grama

    dropseed

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—11

    11—33

    33—100

    —11—

    —22—

    —67—
    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

    0.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; common fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N00197; observed in push tube
    Bt—11 to 23 centimeters (4.3 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; few fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N00198. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1236962; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1236962
    Btk—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) broken face, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; few very fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 20 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N00199. patchy - phpvsfiid 1236963; patchy - phpvsfiid 1236963
    Bkkm—33 to 100 centimeters (13.0 to 39.4 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8.5/2) exterior cemented material; massive; indurated by carbonates; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; violent effervescence.