IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Endlich
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985CO077002
  • User Pedon ID: 85CO077002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985CO077002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0865
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57131
  • 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: 39.0258331
  • Std. Longitude: -108.0461121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 95W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 2140 feet W and 1028 feet S of NE corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO077—Mesa
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bowman, Mays, and Bauer
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Endlich
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Dystric Cryochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: mesa or butte
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1985 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABIES

    PICEA

    Abies

    Picea

    fir

    spruce

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—12

    12—28

    89—0

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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

    20

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    3170

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    225

    91

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); Error; fragments.
    E—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; stony loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04648
    Bw—15 to 31 centimeters (5.9 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 2 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04649. very few clay films surface features on faces of peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 219400; patchy - phpvsfiid 219400
    C1—31 to 68 centimeters (12.2 to 26.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04650
    C2—68 to 101 centimeters (26.8 to 39.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04651
    R—101 to 125 centimeters (39.8 to 49.2 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Hard basalt at 98 cm.