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Catalog Number (archiveGUID): NEON05CIHSESAR 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: 2Bkk2--173 to 200 centimeters (68.1 to 78.7 inches); white (7.5YR 9/1) broken face sandy loam, pale pinkish white (7.5YR 9/2) broken face, moist; 65 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very rigid, slightly sticky, nonplastic; high excavation difficulty; many very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many very fine irregular pores; 90 percent prominent carbonate coats on rock fragments; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 35 percent extremely coarse prominent irregular indurated cemented 7.5YR 9/1), dry, carbonate nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2 to 75-millimeter mixed rock fragments; violent effervescence, by HCl, 1 normal; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 13N03598

Record ID: cb19e08c-e780-4b66-b7ab-690eacfdc0d1

NEON Sample Viewer: 14_JORNADA_PIT1_173-200_ARCHIVE_BKK2

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