IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Campo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1999CO073009TUD
  • User Pedon ID: 1999CO073009TUD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0275
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61379
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 38.6401111
  • Std. Longitude: -103.2665556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 S.
  • Range: 52 W.
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet south and 335 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: 118—Campo silt loam, 0 to 2 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-F2—Stacy Lakes Draw, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Ustic Paleargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Campo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Ustic Paleargids
  • PSC - 8 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/26/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: plain
  • 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: 45
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—36

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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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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 55 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    Btk—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium distinct spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    Bk1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent medium distinct spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bk2—64 to 152 centimeters (25.2 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent fine distinct spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence.