IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Degater
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987CO081006
  • User Pedon ID: 87CO081006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987CO081006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0556
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59851
  • 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: 40.2394447
  • Std. Longitude: -108.5641632
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 100W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Moffat County, CO. 4 mi E of Massedona; Dividing Creek 7.5 minute USGS QUAD.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO081—Moffat
  • MLRA: 34—Central Desertic Basins, Mountains, and Plateaus

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Schroeder, H. Dye, L. Jurgens, K. Leet, W. Lynn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Degater
  • PSC - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Degater
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Position: depression
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCO

    ELSA

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Elymus salinus

    shadscale saltbush

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—50

    5—20

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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

    10

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    1760

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    180

    20

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    8

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    10

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02952; dry when described;. many fine and medium roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bw—8 to 24 centimeters (3.1 to 9.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silty clay; 50 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02953; dry when described;. many fine and medium roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bky—24 to 52 centimeters (9.4 to 20.5 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; irregular gypsum masses and irregular carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02954; moist when described;. few medium and coarse roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1BCy—52 to 82 centimeters (20.5 to 32.3 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, dry; silty clay; 55 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; irregular gypsum masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02955; moist when described;. few medium and coarse roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Cky—82 to 94 centimeters (32.3 to 37.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, dry; silty clay; 53 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 11 percent irregular gypsum masses and irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02956; moist when described;. common masses of gypsum concentrations; few medium and coarse roots; effervescence is continuous
    1Cr—94 to 130 centimeters (37.0 to 51.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 87P02957