IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tellura
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CO113001
  • User Pedon ID: 86CO113001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0860
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59154
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 37.9247208
  • Std. Longitude: -108.2249985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO113—San Miguel
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bowman, G; Bauer, R; Hughes, T; Klameth, L
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tellura
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic Argic Cryoborolls
  • PSC - 57 to 107 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—45

    57—110

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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

    9

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    2970

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    45

    50

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    1A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dry; loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05150. few to common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1AE—28 to 45 centimeters (11.0 to 17.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; gravelly loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05151. Large krotovinas in lower part of AE and upper part of E. Occupy 25 percent of face.; few to common fine and medium roots throughout
    1E—45 to 57 centimeters (17.7 to 22.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, dry; gravelly silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05152. few fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—57 to 80 centimeters (22.4 to 31.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, dry; gravelly clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05153. few fine roots throughout
    1Bt2—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; very gravelly clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05154. few very fine roots throughout
    1Ct—110 to 144 centimeters (43.3 to 56.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; gravelly clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, phenol red. Lab sample # 86P05155