IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Torriorthents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987CO081002
  • User Pedon ID: 87CO081002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0193
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59489
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 40.9322205
  • Std. Longitude: -108.6074982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 100W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet E and 1000 feet S of NW corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO081—Moffat

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, subactive, calcareous, frigid, shallow Typic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Torriorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1987 (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

    60

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    1952

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    270

    25

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    1A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P00993
    1C1—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P00994
    1C2—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P00995
    1Cr—25 centimeters (9.8 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 87P00996. Soft shale bedrock.