IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pajarito
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016NM013014
  • User Pedon ID: S2016NM013014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2016NM013014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0862
  • User Project ID: JORN_014_NEON
  • Project Name: Jornada LTER
  • Print Date: 4/22/2026

    • 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: 32.6065444
  • Std. Longitude: -106.7939194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the SW corner coordinate 32.606511, -106.793984, the pit centroid is 6.1m east northeast (65 degrees)
  • Map Unit: OR—Onite-Pintura complex
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM013—Dona Ana
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 8—Phoenix, AZ
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-LAS—Las Cruces, New Mexico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM690—Dona Ana County Area, New Mexico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32106-E7—Summerford Mountain, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dave White
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pajarito
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haplocambids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/2016
  • Classifier - Greg Cates
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - shrub
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - perennial grass
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits and/or alluvium
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: fan piedmont
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 11
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - JORN_011
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 65
  • Plot Baseline Length - 6
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Gordon Michaud

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Dave White
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCA2

    PRGL2

    SPFL2

    Atriplex canescens

    Prosopis glandulosa

    Sporobolus flexuosus

    fourwing saltbush

    honey mesquite

    mesa dropseed

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

    cambic horizon

    6—100

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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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    1329

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    140

    193

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    210

    16

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    C—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; loamy sand; 85 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 8 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (10.0) very fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03820; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk—6 to 40 centimeters (2.4 to 15.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 14 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, nonplastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) fine tubular pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03821; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk—40 to 100 centimeters (15.7 to 39.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) broken face, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, nonplastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 2 percent fine distinct threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N03822; dry when described; observed in pit, small