Megapit Details - NEON Data

D14 JORN Megapit Soils Description

PEDON DESCRIPTION

Print Date: Jul 22 2015	Country: United States
Description Date: Mar 5 2013	State: New Mexico
Describer: Dave White	County: Dona Ana
Site ID: S2013NM0135000	MLRA: 42 -- Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
Site Note:	Soil Survey Area: NM690 -- Dona Ana County Area, New Mexico 8-LAS -- Las Cruces, New Mexico
Pedon ID: S2013NM013001	Map Unit: WP -- Wink-Pintura complex
Pedon Note:	Quad Name: Summerford Mountain, New Mexico
Lab Source ID: SSL	Std Latitude: 32.5905194
Lab Pedon #: 13N8337	Std Longitude: -106.8437722
User Transect ID:
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Nations
Classification: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Petrocalcids	Latitude: 32 degrees 35 minutes 25.87 seconds north
Soil Name as Correlated:	Longitude: 106 degrees 50 minutes 37.58 seconds west
Classification:	Datum: NAD83
Pedon Type: undefined observation	UTM Zone: 13
Pedon Purpose: research site	UTM Easting: 326959 meters
Taxon Kind: series	UTM Northing: 3607393 meters
Associated Soils: Copia, Onite, Pintura, Wink
Physiographic Division: Intermontane Plateaus	Primary Earth Cover: Grass/herbaceous cover
Physiographic Province: Basin and Range Province	Secondary Earth Cover: Grassland rangeland
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland	Existing Vegetation: alkali sacaton, black grama, desert zinnia, honey mesquite, longleaf jointfir, mesa dropseed, soaptree yucca
State Physiographic Area:	Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits over alluvium
Local Physiographic Area: Jornada Del Muerto	Bedrock Kind:
Geomorphic Setting: on backslope of tread of fan remnant on fan piedmont	Bedrock Depth:
Upslope Shape: linear	Bedrock Hardness:
Cross Slope Shape: concave	Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: 25 to 78 cm.	Surface Fragments: 1.0 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments
Description origin: NASIS	Description database: KSSL

Diagnostic Features:

ochric epipedon 0 to 18 cm.
cambic horizon 18 to 78 cm.
petrocalcic horizon 78 to 110 cm.
calcic horizon 78 to 200 cm.

Top Depth (cm)	Bottom Depth (cm)	Restriction Kind	Restriction Hardness
78	110	petrocalcic	indurated

Cont. Site ID: S2013NM0135000

Pedon ID: S2013NM013001

Slope (%)	Elevation (meters)	Aspect (deg)	MAAT (C)	MSAT (C)	MWAT (C)	MAP (mm)	Frost-Free Days	Drainage Class	Slope Length (meters)	Upslope Length (meters)
2.0	1,327.0	55	16.0			193	210	moderately well	152

A--0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed sandy loam, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; 65 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak thick platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; common very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; common very fine irregular and common very fine tubular pores; noneffervescent, by HCl, 1 normal; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03593

Bw--18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed sandy loam, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed, moist; 65 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; common very fine roots throughout; common very fine irregular and common fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; slight effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03594

2Bk--46 to 78 centimeters (18.1 to 30.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) crushed and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) crushed sandy clay loam; 70 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout; common very fine irregular and common very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 10 percent fine prominent threadlike 7.5YR 9.5/1), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores; 1 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; strong effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03595

2Bkkm--78 to 110 centimeters (30.7 to 43.3 inches); white (7.5YR 9.5/1) broken face cemented material, pale pinkish white (7.5YR 9/2) broken face, moist; indurated by carbonates; very high excavation difficulty; common very fine roots in cracks and common medium roots in cracks; 90 percent prominent 7.5YR 9.5/1), dry, carbonate coats on rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 70 percent extremely coarse prominent irregular indurated cemented 7.5YR 9.5/1), dry, carbonate nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; 6 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; violent effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03596

2Bkk1--110 to 173 centimeters (43.3 to 68.1 inches); white (7.5YR 9.5/1) broken face sandy loam, pale pinkish white (7.5YR 9/2) broken face, moist; 60 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 6 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very rigid, slightly sticky, nonplastic; high excavation difficulty; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; many very fine irregular pores; 90 percent prominent 7.5YR 9.5/1), dry, carbonate coats on rock fragments; 50 percent extremely coarse prominent irregular indurated cemented 7.5YR 9.5/1), dry, carbonate nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; 2 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; violent effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03597

2Bkk2--173 to 200 centimeters (68.1 to 78.7 inches); white (7.5YR 9/1) broken face sandy loam, pale pinkish white (7.5YR 9/2) broken face, moist; 65 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very rigid, slightly sticky, nonplastic; high excavation difficulty; many very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many very fine irregular pores; 90 percent prominent carbonate coats on rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 35 percent extremely coarse prominent irregular indurated cemented 7.5YR 9/1), dry, carbonate nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; violent effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 13N03598