IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wilkerson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO093002
  • User Pedon ID: 08CO093002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO093002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0582
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19981
  • Print Date: 11/29/2024

    • 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: 39.0719452
  • Std. Longitude: -105.9580536
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11
  • Range: 77
  • Section: 24
  • Map Unit: 114—Wilkerson-Platdon complex, 0 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO093—Park
  • MLRA: 48B—Southern Rocky Mountain Parks and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO638—Teller-Park Area, Colorado, Parts of Park and Teller Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Laura Craven
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, gypsic Oxyaquic Calcicryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1485
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilkerson
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilkerson
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R010XY119OR Dry Mountain Swale 12-16 PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 34-91
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    JUARL

    MUTO2

    Artemisia frigida

    Juncus arcticus ssp. littoralis

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    prairie sagewort

    mountain rush

    ring muhly

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

    ochric epipedon

    gypsic horizon

    calcic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—15

    15—48

    48—102

    48—102

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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

    0.5

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    2804

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    250

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    2.8

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    Akyz—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; Error; 12 percent clay; weak very thin platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10.0 fine roots; 11 percent carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03627; dry when described;
    Bkyz—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; Error; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 11 percent carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03628; dry when described;
    Bkz1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03629; moist when described;
    Bkz2—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly clay loam; 32 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent carbonate masses; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03630; moist when described;
    Bkz3—89 to 102 centimeters (35.0 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly clay loam; 30 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent carbonate masses; 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 08N03631; moist when described;