IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Persayo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003CO677001-JH
  • User Pedon ID: 03CO085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0227
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16624
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.5134392
  • Std. Longitude: -107.8840103
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 49N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Se 1/4 of NE 1/4 Sec. 16, T49N R. 9W
  • Map Unit: 731—Killpack-Persayo complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO085—Montrose
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO677—Ridgway Area, Colorado, Parts of Delta, Gunnison, Montrose, and Ouray Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38107-E8—Olathe, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeff Hahn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, mesic, shallow Typic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Persayo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, active, mesic, shallow Typic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 0 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, calcareous at 38cm
  • Geology: Mancos Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6726-14
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    38 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—13

    38—

    —13—

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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

    2

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    1740

    —

    330

    229

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    150

    10

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate very fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00992; observed in pit, small
    C1—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N00993; observed in pit, small
    C2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—38 to 50 centimeters (15.0 to 19.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small