IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Deertrail
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10CO025002
  • User Pedon ID: 10CO025002
  • User Site Association ID: lan5-3_2010.6
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0773
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43207
  • 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: 38.3641944
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7057583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 S.
  • Range: 56 W.
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet west and 50 feet south of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: Dt—Deertrail sandy loam, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO025—Crowley
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PUE—Pueblo, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO025—Crowley County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38103-C6—Lake Henry, Colorado
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lee A. Neve, Laura Craven, Bill Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 175
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deertrail
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/18/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Lower Unit member of the Pierre formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 5-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/18/2010 (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
  • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Btk

    Btkn

    Bkn

    Bk

    8

    31

    74

    112

    31

    74

    112

    152

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Btk

    Btkn

    Bkn

    Bk

    8

    31

    74

    112

    31

    74

    112

    152

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Btk

    Btkn

    Bkn

    Bk

    8

    31

    74

    112

    31

    74

    112

    152

    3

    3

    4

    1

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    natric horizon

    0—8

    8—74

    31—74

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    1356

    10

    330

    11

    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Btk—8 to 31 centimeters (3.1 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 37 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent medium distinct irregular carbonate masses in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; clear smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described;
    Btkn—31 to 74 centimeters (12.2 to 29.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay; 27 percent sand; 44 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent coarse distinct irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent medium distinct irregular salt masses in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bkn—74 to 112 centimeters (29.1 to 44.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; 35 percent sand; 35 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent medium distinct irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; gradual smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bk—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 32 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent medium distinct irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6.; dry when described;