LOCATION GLOBE                   NM

Established Series
Rev. DGS/RLB
11/2014

GLOBE SERIES

The Globe series consists of very deep, poorly drained soils with slow permeability. They formed in clayey pluvial lake sediments. These soils are on depressional lake plains and playas on basin floors. Slope ranges from 0 to 1 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 9 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 64 degrees F.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, smectitic, thermic Chromic Haplotorrerts

TYPICAL PEDON: Globe clay - rangeland. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise stated).

A--0 to 2 inches; reddish brown (5YR 4/3) crushed, clay, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) crushed, dry; strong very fine granular structure; hard, firm, very sticky and very plastic; few fine roots throughout; cracks up to 10 inches wide; violent effervescence, by HCl, 3 normal; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, Phenol red; clear smooth boundary. (1 to 4 inches thick)

Bw--2 to 8 inches; reddish brown (5YR 4/3) crushed, clay, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) crushed, dry; strong coarse prismatic and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky and very plastic; few fine roots throughout; cracks up to 6 inches wide; violent effervescence, by HCl, 3 normal; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, Phenol red; clear smooth boundary. (4 to 8 inches thick)

Bss1--8 to 16 inches; reddish brown (5YR 4/3) exterior, clay, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) exterior, dry; 40 percent reddish gray (5YR 5/2) and 40 percent dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2) mottles; strong medium wedge structure; hard, firm, very sticky and very plastic; few fine roots throughout; cracks up to 3 inches wide; slickensides and pressure faces; striated uncoated sand grains; violent effervescence, by HCl, 3 normal; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, Phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. (6 to 20 inches thick)

Bss2--16 to 50 inches; brown (7.5YR 5/3) exterior, clay, brown (7.5YR 5/2) exterior, dry; 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) and 30 percent greenish gray (5GY 5/1) and 30 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) mottles; strong medium wedge structure; hard, firm, very sticky and very plastic; few fine roots throughout; cracks up to 3 inches wide; slickensides and pressure faces; violently effervescent, by HCl, 3 normal; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, Phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. (24 to 40 inches thick)

C--50 to 80 inches; brown (7.5YR 5/3) exterior, clay, brown (7.5YR 5/2) exterior, dry; 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) and 30 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) and 30 percent greenish gray (5GY 5/1) mottles; hard, firm, massive; very sticky and very plastic; cracks up to 1 inch wide; violent effervescence, by HCl, 3 normal; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, Phenol red;.

TYPE LOCATION: Dona Ana County, New Mexico; approximately 5 miles east and 10.6 miles south of White Sands; 2,200 feet north and 2,000 feet east of the southwest corner of Section 12, T. 24 S., R. 5 E. USGS Newman NW topographic quadrangle; latitude 32 degrees 14 minutes 0.46 seconds north and longitude 106 degrees 23 minutes 14.25 seconds west. UTM zone 13S, 369287E, 3566969N, NAD 27.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:

Soil Moisture: The moisture control section is usually dry in all parts more than three-fourths of the time that the soil temperature exceeds 41 degrees F. Typic aridic soil moisture regime.

Mean annual soil temperature: 63 to 72 degrees F.

Depth to slickensides: 5 to 12 inches

Particle-size control section (weighted average):

Clay content: 35 to 60 percent

A horizon:
Hue 5YR, 7.5YR
Value: 3 to 6 dry, 3 or 4 moist
Chroma: 2 or 3 dry, 1 to 4 moist

Bw horizon:
Hue 5YR, 7.5YR
Value: 3 to 6 dry, 2.5 to 5 moist
Chroma: 1 to 4, dry or moist
Texture: silty clay, clay, clay loam

Bss horizon:
Hue: 5YR or 7.5YR, and 5GR
Value: 3 to 6 dry, 4 or 5 moist
Chroma: 2 to 4, dry or moist
Texture: clay, silty clay
Other features chroma mottles: 1 to 6 dry

C horizon:
5YR or 7.5YR, and 5GR
Value: 4 to 6 dry, 4 or 5 moist
Chroma: 2 or 3, dry or moist
Texture: clay, silty clay
Other features chroma mottles: 1 to 6 dry

COMPETING SERIES: These are the Armijo (NM), Dalby (TX), Montoya (NM), and the Reefridge (CA) series. Armijo soils formed in alluvium in areas of oxbow lakes and sloughs on broad, usually channeled, flood plains or concave terraces around playas. Dalby soils are well drained and have a Bk horizon with 5 to 40 percent calcium carbonate equivalent. Montoya soils are well drained and receive greater than 10 inches precipitation, contain hues of 2.5YR to 7.5YR, and have soil temperature that range from 60 to 62 degrees F. Reefridge soils have a paralithic contact between 40 and 60 inches of the surface.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Globe soils are on depressional lake plains and playas on basin floors. Thes soils formed in pluvial lake sediments. Slopes range from 0 to 1 percent. The mean annual air temperature is 62 to 70 degrees. The mean annual precipitation is 8 to 10 inches. Precipitation falls mostly during the months of July through September. The driest months are March and April. Precipitation during the months of January, February, and March is less than 13 percent of the total.
The frost-free period is 180 to 240 days. Elevation ranges from 3,900 to 4,200 feet.

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Copia, Mcnew, Reyab, and Caticon series.
Copia soils are sandy and are on dunes. Mcnew soils are fine-loamy and are on alluvial plains. Reyab soils are fine-silty and are on inset fans of the fan piedmont. Caticon soils are well drained and have Bk horizons and are slightly higher on the landscape.

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Poorly drained. Permeability is slow. Runoff is negligible.

USE AND VEGETATION: Vegetation is of the Desert Shrub type consisting of Hymenoxys odorata, Lepidium montanum, Helianthus laciniatus, and Molvella lepidota(Sida leprosa.).

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southern New Mexico; LRR D, MLRA 42. The series is of small extent.

MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Phoenix, Arizona

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Dona Ana County, New Mexico, 2001.

REMARKS:

Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:

Particle-size control section: the zone from 10 to 40 inches. (Bss1 and Bss2 horizons)

Ochric epipedon: the zone from 0 to 7 inches. (A and Bw horizons mixed to 7 inches).

Cambic horizon - 2 to 8 inches (Bw horizon)

Vertic properties - Slickensides and wedge-shaped aggregates from 8 to 50 inches; more than 35 percent clay from the surface to greater than 20 inches, and cracks that open and close periodically.

Classified according to Soil Taxonomy Second Edition, 1999; Keys to Soil Taxonomy, Twelfth Edition, 2014.

Revised for the correlation of White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; October, 2014, NMS

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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.