IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cascajo-like
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003CO123002
  • User Pedon ID: 03CO123002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0178
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15976
  • 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: 40.7486801
  • Std. Longitude: -104.0196228
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 59W
  • Section: 18
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO123—Weld
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO618—Weld County, Colorado, Southern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40104-F1—Keota, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Petersen, Yonker, Reinsch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cascajo-like
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 95 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/2003
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: white river silty sandstone
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Geology: White River formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; 11 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N00830
    AC—9 to 20 centimeters (3.5 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loamy coarse sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N00831
    C1—20 to 65 centimeters (7.9 to 25.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loamy coarse sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 45 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N00832
    C2—65 to 95 centimeters (25.6 to 37.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loamy coarse sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N00833
    Cr—95 to 129 centimeters (37.4 to 50.8 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N00834
    R—129 centimeters (50.8 inches); fragments.