IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manzano
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10CO055003
  • User Pedon ID: 10CO055003
  • User Site Association ID: lan5-3_2010.6
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0777
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43211
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 37.6397222
  • Std. Longitude: -104.7455000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28 S.
  • Range: 66 W.
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet west and 2000 feet south of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: 43—Manzano loam
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO055—Huerfano
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PUE—Pueblo, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO627—Huerfano County Area, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37104-F6—Maria Reservoir, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lee A. Neve, Laura Craven, Bill Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Torrifluventic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 178
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manzano
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Torrifluventic Haplustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/17/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/17/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—147

    20—109

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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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    1855

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    406

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    10.5

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 35 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw2—56 to 109 centimeters (22.0 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 50 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    BC—109 to 142 centimeters (42.9 to 55.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    C—142 to 183 centimeters (55.9 to 72.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 18 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent medium prominent irregular gray (10YR 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.; moist when described;