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Catalog Number (archiveGUID): NEON05CIGSESAR Record

Event ID: S2013NM0135000

Collector: Ed Ayres

Date: 2013-03-05

Additional Collectors: Joshua Roberti (ORCID 0000-0002-3888-4900)

Locality: United States, New Mexico, Dona Ana, Desert Southwest (D14), Jornada Experimental Range NEON (JORN), Jornada LTER Megapit, MP1 [Location ID: MEGAPT100976]

32.59052  -106.84377 +-3m.  WGS84

Verbatim Coordinates: 13N 327074.45453E 3607410.71899N

Elevation: 1327 meters (4353ft)

Description: Soil sample from the megapit for archive

Sampling Protocol: NEON.DOC.001307vA

Notes: 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

Record ID: 705b0411-4ea0-4857-96f2-06451e30837b

NEON Sample Viewer: 14_JORNADA_PIT1_78-110_ARCHIVE_BKKM

For additional information about this specimen, please contact: NEON Megapit Archive (soilarchive@battelleecology.org)