IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hesperus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981CO045002
  • User Pedon ID: 81CO045002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0624
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49468
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.5111122
  • Std. Longitude: -108.7983322
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 102W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet W of E 1/4 corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO045—Garfield

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hesperus
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fughes
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Pachic Argiboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mesa or butte
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1981 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    2440

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    45

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    1A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03695
    1B1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03696
    1B21t—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 32 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03697
    1B22t—58 to 102 centimeters (22.8 to 40.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 32 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03698
    1B31t—102 to 160 centimeters (40.2 to 63.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P03699
    1B32ca—160 to 274 centimeters (63.0 to 107.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 81P03700
    1C—274 to 305 centimeters (107.9 to 120.1 inches); clay loam; fragments. Lab sample # 81P03701