IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boxcanyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00CO628002
  • User Pedon ID: 00CO628002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 00CO628002
  • User Site Association ID: lan628-2003.6
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0751
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16197
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.3394167
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7936111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31 S.
  • Range: 57 W.
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 800' N, 50' E of SW corner
  • Map Unit: Bx—Boxcanyon silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 67—Central High Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37103-C7—Doss Canyon South, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Calcidic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 794
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Boxcanyon
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boxcanyon
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 124cm
  • Geology: Dakota formation of the Dakota Sandstone group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1-104
  • Plant Association Name: loamy
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Btk1

    Btk2

    Bk1

    2Bk2

    10

    36

    66

    80

    97

    112

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Bt1

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    10

    36

    66

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    97

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Bt1

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    66

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    97

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    OPUNT

    PASM

    PLJA

    YUCCA

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Opuntia

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pleuraphis jamesii

    Yucca

    blue grama

    pricklypear

    western wheatgrass

    James' galleta

    yucca

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    124 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—97

    97—124

    124—152

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    7/26/2000

    52

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    381

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bt1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout; 70 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 238708; continuous - phpvsfiid 238708
    Bt2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 65 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 238709; continuous - phpvsfiid 238709
    Btk1—66 to 80 centimeters (26.0 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay; 41 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 80 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent medium distinct carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 238710; continuous - phpvsfiid 238710
    Btk2—80 to 98 centimeters (31.5 to 38.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; 42 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 65 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 241931; continuous - phpvsfiid 241931
    Bk1—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 50 percent medium distinct carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt irregular boundary.
    2Bk2—112 to 124 centimeters (44.1 to 48.8 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/3), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; fine gravelly sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 30 percent fine distinct carbonate masses; 30 percent by volume subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt boundary.
    R—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; very slow permeability; fragments.