IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kim
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007CO087004
  • User Pedon ID: 07CO087004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007CO087004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0125
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19032
  • 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: 40.4361115
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8077469
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 58W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1135 feet west & 226 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: Sa—Samsil gravelly soils, hilly
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO087—Morgan
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO087—Morgan County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40103-D7—Peace Valley School, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andy Steinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kim
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2013
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kim
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2006
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 108
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 4
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PASM

    BOGR2

    ATCA2

    OPPO

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Atriplex canescens

    Opuntia polyacantha

    western wheatgrass

    blue grama

    fourwing saltbush

    plains pricklypear

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—12

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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

    1

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    1402

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    320

    330

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    154

    9

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    CO3038

    Fort Morgan

    Wets
    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; 30 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate very thick platy parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine vesicular and 2.0 fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00798; observed in trench
    C1—12 to 29 centimeters (4.7 to 11.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; 30 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine vesicular and 2.0 fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00799; observed in trench
    C2—29 to 59 centimeters (11.4 to 23.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; 35 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 1.0 fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00800; observed in trench
    C3—59 to 101 centimeters (23.2 to 39.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; 35 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 24 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine vesicular and 1.0 fine vesicular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 1 percent very fine irregular carbonate masses on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00801; observed in trench
    C3—101 to 146 centimeters (39.8 to 57.5 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, moist; loam; 35 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 23 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00802; observed in trench
    C4—146 to 198 centimeters (57.5 to 78.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 15 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, phenol red. Lab sample # 07N00803; observed in trench