IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Garo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO093003
  • User Pedon ID: 08CO093003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0583
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19982
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 39.1822205
  • Std. Longitude: -105.8475037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 76 W
  • Section: 14
  • Map Unit: 35—Garo clay, 0 to 3 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39105-B7—Elkhorn, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Laura Craven
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active Calcic Haplocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1486
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Garo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Link
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from shale
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • 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
    R048BY280CO Dry Mountain Swale

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 61-12
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    0—8

    8—119

    8—119

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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

    —

    —

    2804

    —

    325

    —

    —

    3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2), weak red (2.5YR 5/2), dry; 39 percent clay; weak coarse granular structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03632
    Bkn1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3), dry; 43 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N03633
    Bkn2—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), dry; 43 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 1 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 # 08N03634
    Bkn3—56 to 119 centimeters (22.0 to 46.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3), dry; 42 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 25 percent carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # 08N03635