IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monogram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980CO085001
  • User Pedon ID: 80CO085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0373
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48151
  • Print Date: 4/30/2025

    • 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: 38.2147217
  • Std. Longitude: -108.7902756
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 1624 feet E and 1624 feet S of NW corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO085—Montrose

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bowen, Hawn and Nettleton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ustollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Monogram
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monogram
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Borollic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: mesa or butte
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
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    2097

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    1A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01978
    1A12—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01979
    1B1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior, dry; loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01980
    1B21t—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 31 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01981. Norwood lab indicates 11 percent fine sand and coarser.
    1B22tca—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01982. Common lime concretions. This is a loamy foothills range site. This pedons has an outstanding calcic horizon. This site would seem to be on the warm side of frigid, however range conservationists indicate it has vegetation common to frigi
    1B3ca—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, pink (5YR 7/3) interior, dry; loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01983. Many cicada casts greater than 20 percent.
    2C1ca—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); pink (5YR 7/4) interior, pinkish white (5YR 8/2) interior, dry; sandy loam; 18 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01984. Many cicada casts greater than 20 percent.
    2C2ca—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, pink (7.5YR 7/4) interior, dry; loam; 22 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01985
    2C3—132 to 168 centimeters (52.0 to 66.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; loam; 24 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01986
    1R—168 to 173 centimeters (66.1 to 68.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 80P01987. Hard sandstone.