IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiatha
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987CO081004
  • User Pedon ID: 87CO081004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0195
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59491
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 40.9505539
  • Std. Longitude: -108.4477768
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 98W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet E and 1000 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO081—Moffat

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, calcareous, frigid, shallow Typic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiatha
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boltus
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic (calcareous), frigid, sha
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • 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

    10

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    2105

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    180

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    1A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior, light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01001
    1C—3 to 30 centimeters (1.2 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior, light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01002
    1Cr—30 centimeters (11.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 87P01003. Soft shale bedrock.