IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ellicott
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10CO087002MJM
  • User Pedon ID: 10CO087002MJM
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10CO087002MJM
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0479
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28275
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 40.2009444
  • Std. Longitude: -104.0263333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 59W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 2,135 feet west and 1,090 feet south from the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: Bk—Ellicott-Glenberg complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO087—Morgan
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-FTM—Fort Morgan, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO087—Morgan County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40104-B1—Wiggins, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Ustic Torrifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ellicott
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/30/2013
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ellicott
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Ustic Torrifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/2009
  • Classifier - Mike Moore
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy alluvium
  • Landform: flood-plain step
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods
  • 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
    R067BY031CO Sandy Bottomland

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 18
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANHA

    ARFI2

    BRTE

    CALO

    HELIA3

    Andropogon hallii

    Artemisia filifolia

    Bromus tectorum

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Helianthus

    sand bluestem

    sand sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    prairie sandreed

    sunflower

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—9

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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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    1390

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    270

    330

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    154

    9

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    CO3038

    FORT MORGAN

    WETS
    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loamy sand; 4 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 91.74 um/s; rapid permeability; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; ; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N01951; observed in trench
    C1—9 to 41 centimeters (3.5 to 16.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sand; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 141.14 um/s; very rapid permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N01952; observed in trench
    C2—41 to 92 centimeters (16.1 to 36.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; sand; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 141.1 um/s; very rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N01953; observed in trench
    C3—92 to 132 centimeters (36.2 to 52.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; sand; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 141.1 um/s; very rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N01954; observed in trench
    C4—132 to 169 centimeters (52.0 to 66.5 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; sand; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 141.1 um/s; very rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N01955; observed in trench
    C5—169 to 215 centimeters (66.5 to 84.6 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; sand; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 141.1 um/s; very rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N01956; observed in trench