IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979CO109003
  • User Pedon ID: 79CO109003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0368
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47101
  • 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: 37.7916679
  • Std. Longitude: -106.2041702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 41N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 58 meters S and 91 meters W of the NE corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO109—Saguache

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Aquic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Norte
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Norte
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Ustorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • 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

    5

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    800

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    90

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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01965
    1AC—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, yellow (10YR 7/6) interior, dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01966
    1C1ca—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; very hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01967
    2C2ca—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01968
    2C3ca—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); extremely gravelly sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01969. Lime coatings on undersides of gravels.
    2C4—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); extremely gravelly sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 85 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 79P01970. Few lime coatings on undersides of gravels.