IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ravola
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984CO077002
  • User Pedon ID: 84CO077002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0544
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54788
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 39.2519455
  • Std. Longitude: -108.8141632
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: About 175 feet N and 600 feet W of SE corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO077—Mesa

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Torrifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ravola
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ravola
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Torrif
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1984 (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
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    1Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02964. Compacted with some pseudo plating orientation due to cattle trampling when the soil was wet.; common very fine and fine roots; few to common medium and coarse roots
    1A2—8 to 34 centimeters (3.1 to 13.4 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.0 medium and coarse roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02965. common very fine and fine roots; common to many medium and coarse roots
    1C1—34 to 63 centimeters (13.4 to 24.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 1.0 very fine and fine tubular and 1.0 medium and coarse tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02966. common very fine and fine roots; few to common medium and coarse roots
    1C2—63 to 88 centimeters (24.8 to 34.6 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 1.0 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02967. common very fine and fine roots; few to common medium and coarse roots
    1C3—88 to 110 centimeters (34.6 to 43.3 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 1.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02968. Few medium tubular coarse.; few very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    1C4—110 to 160 centimeters (43.3 to 63.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; clay loam; 80 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P02969. few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots