IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nortez
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983CO083003
  • User Pedon ID: 83CO083003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0805
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53586
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 37.8805542
  • Std. Longitude: -108.8627777
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: about 1,410 feet west and 45 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Dolores County, Colorado; Joe Davis Hill, Colorado USGS quad; lat. 37 degrees 52 minutes 50 seconds N. and long. 108 degrees 51 minutes 46 seconds W., NAD 27
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO083—Montezuma

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Argiborolls
  • 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nortez
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nortez
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Typic Argiboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1983 (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

    6

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    2318

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    315

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior, dry; loam; weak coarse platy, and weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04064. Two percent gravel.
    1A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04065. Five percent gravel.
    1BA—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04066. Five percent gravel.
    1Bt1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P04067. Five percent gravel.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Bt2—33 to 79 centimeters (13.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, dry; clay; strong medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04068. Five percent gravel. Split for sampling three ways; 13-20 4068, 20-26 4069 and 26-31 4070. ; many clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1R—79 to 89 centimeters (31.1 to 35.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 83P04071. Dakota sandstone.