IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Campo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55CO009002
  • User Pedon ID: 55CO009002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3851
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39497
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 37.2949982
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2591629
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 115 feet west and 40 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Baca County, Colorado.
  • Map Unit: Ca—Campo clay loamCaA—Campo clay loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO009—Baca
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO009—Baca County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37102-C3—Walsh SE, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rodney Preator
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Torrertic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Campo (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row 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

    secondary carbonates

    0—18

    18—81

    61—200

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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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    381

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    155

    11

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29517
    Bt—18 to 61 centimeters (7.1 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; moderate and strong medium prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29518
    Btk—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29520. This is a weak to moderate lime horizon containing common number of soft calcium carbonate concretions 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter; thin continuous clay films.
    Bk1—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3 percent carbonate concretions and fine carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29521. This is a moderate lime horizon containing moderate numbers of calcium carbonate concretions and much finely disseminated lime flour.
    Bk2—104 to 200 centimeters (40.9 to 78.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 1 percent carbonate concretions and fine carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29522. This is a moderate lime horizon containing a few calcium carbonate concretions and much finely disseminated lime flour.