IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Happy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003CO677007-JH
  • User Pedon ID: 03CO085007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0233
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16630
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.4723282
  • Std. Longitude: -107.9022903
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 49N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 550 feet S and 2450 feet E of NW Corner
  • Map Unit: 799—Montrose-Fruitland complex, 0 to 2 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-D8—Montrose West, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeff Hahn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Aquicambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Happy
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Aquicambids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium derived from mixed sources
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6726-12
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—20

    20—84

    51—154

    —20—

    —64—

    —103—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    1762

    —

    350

    229

    —

    150

    10

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    —

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    Az—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent fine salt crystals throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-28-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01012; observed in trench
    Btz1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine salt crystals throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N01013; observed in trench
    Btz2—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent fine reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent fine salt crystals throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01014; observed in trench
    C—84 to 154 centimeters (33.1 to 60.6 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy loam; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent fine gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions and 25 percent fine reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red. Lab sample # 04N01015; observed in trench