IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minqwet
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 76CO628001
  • User Pedon ID: 76CO628001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0216
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60339
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.2602778
  • Std. Longitude: -103.4647222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32 S.
  • Range: 54 W.
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet south and 65 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: MI—Minqwet-Wiley silt loams, 1 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37103-C4—Cherry Canyon, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 311
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Minqwet
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 67 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1976
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty slope alluvium over residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent strong weathered marl at 67cm
  • Geology: Greenhorn Limestone member of the Niobrara formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 31-E
  • Plant Association Name: Loamy
  • 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 Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

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    15

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    67 - 153

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—53

    67—152

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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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    1743.5

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    381

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium granular, and weak coarse platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bky—53 to 67 centimeters (20.9 to 26.4 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), moist; silt loam; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.1 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine distinct carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;
    Cr—67 to 152 centimeters (26.4 to 59.8 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.