LOCATION FRUITLAND NM+AZ CO UT
Established Series
Rev. TLP/RJA/LWH
06/2013
FRUITLAND SERIES
The Fruitland series consists of very deep, well drained and somewhat excessively drained soils that formed in eolian material and moderately coarse textured alluvium and stream alluvium derived from sandstone and shale. Fruitland soils are on stream terraces on valley floors, alluvial fans on valley sides, and summits of mesas, and have slopes of 0 to 30 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 8 inches and the mean annual air temperature is about 52 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Torriorthents
TYPICAL PEDON: Fruitland sandy loam--cropland. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise stated.)
A--0 to 7 inches; brown (10YR 5/3) sandy loam, brown (10YR 4/3) moist; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; common fine roots; few fine pores; slightly effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.0); clear smooth boundary. (4 to 10 inches thick)
C1--7 to 18 inches; pale brown (10YR 6/3) sandy loam, brown (10YR 5/3) moist; weak medium and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; few fine roots; few fine pores; slightly effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.0); clear smooth boundary. (9 to 40 inches thick)
C2--18 to 42 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sandy loam, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) moist; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; few fine roots; many fine pores; slightly effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.0); clear gradual boundary. (20 to 42 inches thick)
C3--42 to 70 inches; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sandy loam, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) moist; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky and nonplastic; few fine roots; few fine pores; slightly effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.0).
TYPE LOCATION: San Juan County, New Mexico; near 29th and Farmington Streets in Farmington; 1,500 feet east, 550 feet south of the NW corner of Sec. 11, T. 29 N., R. 13 W.; 108 degrees, 10 minutes, 42 seconds west longitude; 36 degrees, 44 minutes, 48 seconds north latitude.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Soil Moisture: Usually dry, intermittently moist in some part of the soil moisture control section December through March and July through September. The soil is driest during May and June. Typic aridic soil moisture regime.
Soil Temperature: 52 to 57 degrees F.
Reaction: slightly alkaline to moderately alkaline
Calcium carbonate: less than 15 percent
Clay: 5 to 18 percent in the particle-size control section
Rock fragments: range from 0 to 10 percent
A horizon
Hue: 2.5Y, 10YR, 7.5YR
Value: 5 through 7 dry, 4 or 5 moist
Chroma: 2 through 4, dry or moist
Texture: loam, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loamy fine sand, sandy clay loam
C horizon
Hue: 10YR, 7.5YR, 2.5Y
Value: 5 through 7 dry, 4 through 6 moist
Chroma: 2 through 4, dry or moist
Texture: sandy loam, fine sandy loam. Below 40 inches strata of sand, loamy sand, very fine sandy loam, loamy fine sand, gravelly sandy loam, sandy clay loam, clay loam, silt loam
Some pedons have Ck horizons
COMPETING SERIES: These are the
Apron (WY),
Fang (NV),
Ganaflan (NV),
Geer (NV),
Jeddito (AZ),
Jenrid (UT),
Kumiva (NV),
Marcou (AZ),
Mazuma (NV),
Moepitz (UT),
Piltdown (NV),
Shotnick (UT),
Sodaspring (NV),
Tooele (UT),
Trachute (UT),
Vanderhoff (ID),
Wentridge (UT), and
Worland (WY). Apron and Worland soils are moist during
May and June. Fang, Ganaflan, Geer, Kumiva, Mazuma, Piltdown and Sodaspring soils are moist on the soil moisture control section for less than 20 days cumulative during the summer. Jeddito soils are stratified throughout. Jenrid, Shotnick and Tooele soils have mean annual soil temperatures of 47-52 degrees F. Moepitz, Vanderhoff and Wentridge soils have bedrock at moderately depths. Marcou soils have buried soils below 40 inches and 5YR hue. Trachute soils have hue of 2.5YR and 5YR.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Fruitland soils are on stream terraces on valley floors, alluvial fans on valley sides, and summits of mesas. Slope is 0 to 30 percent. The soils formed from moderately coarse textured alluvium and stream alluvium from sandstone and shale. Elevation is 4,800 to 6,800 feet. The climate is semiarid. Average annual precipitation is 6 to 10 inches. Average annual air temperature is 50 to 55 degrees F. Frost-free period is 130 to 165 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the
Avalon,
Stumble and
Turley soils. Avalon and Turley soils have more than 18 percent clay. Stumble soils are sandy.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained and somewhat excessively drained; very low to medium runoff; moderate or moderately rapid permeability.
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used for irrigated cropland and livestock grazing. Present vegetation is Indian ricegrass, galleta, sand dropseed, Mormon-tea, blue grama, fourwing saltbush and winterfat.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, western Colorado and southern Utah. The series is of moderate extent. MLRAs 35, 36 & 39.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Phoenix, Arizona
SERIES ESTABLISHED: San Juan County, New Mexico, 1965.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - the zone from 0 to 7 inches (A horizon)
Entic feature - lack of diagnostic horizons
Classified according to Soil Taxonomy, Second Edition, 1999; Keys to Soil Taxonomy, Eleventh Edition, 2010
Updated and revised for the correlation of Ft. Defiance Area AZ715 2/08 DWD
Updated and revised for the correlation of Capitol Reef National Park, January 2013, WWJ
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.