IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Travelers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979CO023003
  • User Pedon ID: 79CO023003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0366
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47099
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.1555557
  • Std. Longitude: -105.7311096
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 75W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 73 meters S and 1022 meters W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: About 150 meters E of the Rio Grande River.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO023—Costilla

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, frigid Borollic Lithic Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Travelers
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Travelers
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Borollic Lithic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    810

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    225

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    1A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very stony fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01954
    1A12—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very stony loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01955
    1B2—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; very stony loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01956. 10YR 5/3 moist crushed color.
    1C1ca—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) interior, 7.5YR 8/0 (7.5YR 8/0) interior, dry; very stony loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01957. Lime and silica pendants on bottoms of rock fragments.
    1R—51 centimeters (20.1 inches); unweathered bedrock; hard; fragments. Lab sample # 79P01958. Unweathered basalt.