IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Degater
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987CO081007A
  • User Pedon ID: 87CO081007A
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987CO081007A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0559
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59854
  • 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, mixed, subactive, mesic Typic Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Degater
  • PSC - 25 to 92 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

    ATGA

    ELSA

    XYVE

    Atriplex gardneri

    Elymus salinus

    Xylorhiza venusta

    Gardner's saltbush

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    charming woodyaster

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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

    9

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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 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; silty clay; 42 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02971; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bw1—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; silty clay; 54 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02972; dry when described;. common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bw2—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; silty clay; 56 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02973; moist when described;. common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bw3—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; silty clay; 55 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. common very fine roots throughout; common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bky—71 to 92 centimeters (28.0 to 36.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent fine gypsum masses and 11 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. common fine masses of gypsum concentrations; common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine roots throughout; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Cr—92 to 102 centimeters (36.2 to 40.2 inches); fragments. Highly gypsiferous Mancos Shale.