IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Degater
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987CO081006A
  • User Pedon ID: 87CO081006A
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987CO081006A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0557
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59852
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.2394447
  • 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 Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Degater
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - third edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • 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:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • 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:
  • 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

    AGSM

    ATCO

    ELSA

    Agropyron smithii

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Elymus salinus

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    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

    8

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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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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; 37 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse granular structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02960
    Bw—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; 45 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; medium roots throughout and fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02961
    Ck—20 to 54 centimeters (7.9 to 21.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; 45 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; medium roots throughout and coarse roots throughout; 11 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02962
    Cky—54 to 76 centimeters (21.3 to 29.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; 45 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; medium roots throughout and coarse roots throughout; 30 percent medium spherical gypsum crystals, unspecified and 1 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02963
    Cr—76 to 105 centimeters (29.9 to 41.3 inches); fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.