LOCATION APPLESEED               AZ

Established Series
WJ/RKS/DWD/PDC/HCD
04/2015

APPLESEED SERIES

The Appleseed series consists of shallow and very shallow somewhat excessively drained soils that formed in alluvium and colluvium from limestone on mountains and hills. Slopes range from 4 to 75 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 5 inches and the mean annual air temperature is about 74 degrees F.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, hyperthermic Lithic Torriorthents

TYPICAL PEDON: Appleseed extremely cobbly sandy loam - wildlife habitat and recreation. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.)

A--0 to 2 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) extremely cobbly sandy loam, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) moist; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; many very fine roots; many very fine irregular pores; 50 percent gravel, 20 percent cobble, 10 percent stone; strongly effervescent, 30 percent calcium carbonate equivalent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.0); abrupt smooth boundary. (1 to 3 inches thick)

Bk--2 to 8 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) extremely cobbly sandy loam, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) moist; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; many very fine roots; many very fine tubular pores; 50 percent gravel, 20 percent cobble, 10 percent stone; strongly effervescent, 32 percent calcium carbonate equivalent, rock fragments are calcium carbonate coated; moderately alkaline (pH 8.0); abrupt smooth boundary. (1 to 3 inches thick)

2R--8 inches; limestone.

TYPE LOCATION: In an unsectionized area. In the general area of latitude 35 degrees, 38 minutes, 07 seconds North and longitude of 113 degrees, 57 minutes, 21 seconds West.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:

Soil moisture: Intermittently moist in some part of the soil moisture control section during December - February and for less than 20 days cumulative during July - September. Driest during May and June. Typic Aridic soil moisture regime.

Soil temperature: 72 to 80 degrees F.

Rock fragments: more than 35 percent rock fragments made up of a combination of gravel, cobble and stone with more than 5 percent cobble plus stone

Clay content: 7 to 18 percent

Organic matter: less than 1 percent

Effervescence: slight to violent

Reaction: slightly to moderately alkaline

Depth to bedrock: 4 to 20 inches

Calcium carbonate equivalent: 15 to 35 percent


A and Bk horizons

Hue: 10YR, 7.5YR

Value: 5 or 6 dry, 4 or 5 moist

Chroma: 3 or 4, dry or moist

COMPETING SERIES: These are the Goldroad (AZ), Hyder (AZ), Quilotosa (AZ), Redneedle (NV), and Sunrock (AZ) soils. Hyder and Quilotosa are intermittently moist for more than 20 days cumulative during July - September. Goldroad, Redneedle, and Sunrock soils have less than 15 percent calcium carbonate equivalent. In addition, Goldroad is formed over granite parent material, Redneedle over sandstone conglomerate and has less than 5 percent cobble plus stone, and Sunrock over andesite or related volcanic rock.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Appleseed soils are on hills and mountains at elevations of 1,100 to 2,000 feet. Slopes range from 4 to 75 percent. These soils formed in colluvium and alluvium from limestone. The mean annual precipitation is 3 to 6 inches. The mean annual air temperature is 70 to 78 degrees F. The frost-free period is 280 to 320 days.

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Carrizo and Huevi soils. Carrizo soils are sandy-skeletal and very deep. Huevi soils are very deep and loamy-skeletal.

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Somewhat excessively drained; very high runoff; moderately rapid permeability.

USE AND VEGETATION: Used for wildlife habitat and recreation. Vegetation includes white bursage, creosotebush, white brittlebush, Mormon-tea and opuntia.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northwestern Arizona. Appleseed soils are of limited extent. MLRA is 30.

MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: PHOENIX, ARIZONA

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Mohave County, Arizona; Soil survey of Mohave County, Arizona, Central Part; 2005.

REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:

Ochric epipedon - The zone from 0 to 2 inches (A horizon)

Lithic contact - The boundary at 8 inches (2R horizon)

Entisol feature - The absence of diagnostic subsurface horizons

Classified according to Keys to Soil Taxonomy Ninth Edition, 2003.

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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.