IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sphinx
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982CO035003
  • User Pedon ID: 82CO035003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0775
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51562
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 39.2536125
  • Std. Longitude: -105.2249985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 70W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: Pike Natl. Forest. NE1/4, NE1/4
  • Location Description: Douglas County, Colo. UTM Zone 13, 4344960 meters N, 480670 meters E.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO035—Douglas
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Randy Moore and Gilbert Bowman, 8/82.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, noncalcareous, frigid, shallow Typic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sphinx
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sphinx
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, shallow Typic Ustorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    41

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    1950

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    45

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    1O—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments. Lab sample # 82P03983
    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03983
    1AC—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03984
    1C—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior, reddish yellow (5YR 7/6) interior, dry; coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03985
    1Cr—28 to 60 centimeters (11.0 to 23.6 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 82P03986. (Grus)