IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gulnare
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84CO628003
  • User Pedon ID: 84CO628003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 84CO628003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0831
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60126
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.2005000
  • Std. Longitude: -104.8327778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33 S.
  • Range: 67 W.
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet south and 800 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: 2500 feet south and 800 feet west of the northeast corner of section 1, T.33S., R.67W.
  • Map Unit: GA—Gulnare-Allens Park complex, 5 to 35 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 49—Southern Rocky Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37104-B7—Weston, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 395
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gulnare
  • PSC - 13 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gulnare
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum weathered from noncalcareous sandstone
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered sandstone, noncalcareous
  • Geology: Poison Canyon formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 16-E
  • Plant Association Name: Ponderosa pine
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ELEL5

    FEAR2

    KOMA

    MUMO

    PIPO

    POA

    Elymus elymoides

    Festuca arizonica

    Koeleria macrantha

    Muhlenbergia montana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Poa

    squirreltail

    Arizona fescue

    prairie Junegrass

    mountain muhly

    ponderosa pine

    bluegrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    48 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    13—43

    43—48

    48—152

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    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

    31

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    2243

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    0

    457

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    6.7

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    7.8

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    E—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine and medium roots; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bt1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 coarse roots; 45 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 111138; continuous - phpvsfiid 111138
    Bt2—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 coarse roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 111139; continuous - phpvsfiid 111139
    Cr—43 to 48 centimeters (16.9 to 18.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.
    R—48 to 183 centimeters (18.9 to 72.0 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments.