LOCATION ESLENDO NM+AZ
Established Series
Rev. LH/RJA
06/2013
ESLENDO SERIES
The Eslendo series consists of very shallow or shallow, well drained soils that formed in slope alluvium and colluvium over residuum derived from sandstone, siltstone and shale. Eslendo soils are on ridges, hills, mesas, and backslopes of escarpments. Slopes are 1 to 70 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 12 inches, and the mean annual air temperature is about 50 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
TYPICAL PEDON: Eslendo clay loam--rangeland. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.)
A--0 to 3 inches; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay loam, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) moist; weak fine granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky and moderately plastic few fine and very fine roots; slightly effervescent; moderately alkaline; abrupt smooth boundary. (1 to 4 inches thick)
C--3 to 10 inches; light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) clay loam, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) moist; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky and moderately plastic; few fine roots; few fine tubular pores; slightly effervescent; moderately alkaline; abrupt smooth boundary. (3 to 16 inches thick)
Cr--10 inches; soft shale bedrock.
TYPE LOCATION: Sandoval County, New Mexico. 16 miles south of Lybrook, 1,760 feet south and 2,400 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 29 T. 21 N., R. 7 W.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Soil Moisture: Usually dry, moist in some parts periodically from July 1 through October and January through March. Driest during May and June. Ustic aridic moisture regime.
Soil depth: 4 to 20 inches to soft shale
Soil temperature: 48 to 56 degrees F.
Calcium carbonate: less than 15 percent calcium carbonate equivalent
Particle-size control section - clay content: 18 to 35 percent
Rock fragments: 0 to 15 percent dominantly gravel
A horizon
Hue: 10YR, 7.5YR, 2.5Y
Value: 5 to 7 dry, 3 to 6 moist
Chroma: 2 to 4, dry or moist
Texture: loam, silt loam, clay loam, very channery fine sandy loam, silty clay loam
C horizon
Hue: 7.5YR, 10YR, 5Y, 2.5Y
Value: 5 or 6 dry, 4 to 6 moist
Chroma: 2 to 8, dry or moist
Texture: loam, clay loam, silt loam, silty clay loam
COMPETING SERIES: These are the
Canyon (NE),
Epping (NE),
Gerst (UT),
Picante (CO),
Quarteles (NM),
Redarrow (WY),
Remorris (UT),
Sandoval (NM),
Shingle (WY),
Simel (UT),
Taluce (WY),
Tesihim AZ) and
Tassel (NE) series. Gerst soils have 15 to 35 percent rock fragments in the particle size control section. Taluce and Tassel soils have less than 18 percent clay. Epping soils contain significant amounts of glass shards. Quarteles soils have significant amounts of mica. Remorris and Redarrow soils have hues of 7.5YR or redder. Picante soils are dry for a shorter period of time before July 15 and are moist for a longer period following the winter solstice. Sandoval soils are moist for shorter periods of time during January through March. In addition, Canyon, Epping, Redarrow, Tassel, Shingle, and Taluce soils are in LRR-G and are more moist in
May and June. Simel soils have a lithic contact underlaying the paralithic contact. Tesihim soils have 10 to 18 percent clay in the particle control section.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Eslendo soils are on ridges, hills, mesas, and backslopes of escarpments. Slopes are 1 to 70 percent. Elevations are 4,900 to 7,000 feet. The soils formed in slope alluvium and colluvium over residuum derived from shale, sandstone and siltstone. The mean annual precipitation is typically 9 to 14 inches and the mean annual air temperature is 46 to 54 degrees F. The frost-free period is about 100 to 165 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the
Councelor and
Mespun soils. Councelor soils are deep, and Mespun soils are deep and sandy.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained, medium to very high runoff; moderate or moderately slow permeability.
USE AND VEGETATION: Eslendo soils are used for livestock grazing. The native vegetation is Indian ricegrass, galleta, blue grama, and Wyoming big sagebrush.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northcentral New Mexico and northeast Arizona. MLRA 35, LRR-D. The series is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Phoenix, Arizona
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Sandoval County, New Mexico, 1987
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - the zone from 0 to 3 inches (A horizon)
Paralithic contact - the boundary at 10 inches (Cr horizon)
Entisol feature - lack of diagnostic subsurface horizons (C1, C2 horizons)
Classified according to Soil Taxonomy, Second Edition, 1999; Keys to Soil Taxonomy, 11th Edition, 2010
Update and revisions for the correlation of Navajo Mountain Area, AZ711, May 2008, CEM
Update and revisions for the correlation of Chinle Area (AZ713), August 2011, LJG2
Update and revisions for the correlation of Capitol Reef National Park, January 2013, WWJ
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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.