IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arvada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1999CO073002TUD
  • User Pedon ID: 1999CO073002TUD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0036
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61969
  • 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: 38.5967778
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3553889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 S.
  • Range: 53 W.
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 185 feet north and 265 feet east of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: 102—Arvada clay loam, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO073—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO073—Lincoln County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38103-E3—Bluff Spring, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 220
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arvada
  • PSC - 10 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arvada
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landform: fan, drainageway
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/26/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 53
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    0—10

    10—64

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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

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    330

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    10

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03840
    Btn1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical salt masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03841
    Btn2—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical salt masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03842
    Bkn1—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silty clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent fine distinct spherical carbonate masses in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct spherical salt masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bkn2—89 to 112 centimeters (35.0 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine distinct spherical carbonate masses in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct spherical salt masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bkny1—112 to 140 centimeters (44.1 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 22 percent fine distinct spherical carbonate masses in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct spherical gypsum masses in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct spherical salt masses in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bkny2—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine distinct spherical salt masses in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct spherical gypsum masses in matrix and 22 percent fine distinct spherical carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence.