IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manzanola
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87CO628001
  • User Pedon ID: 87CO628001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 87CO628001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0837
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60132
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 37.0691111
  • Std. Longitude: -104.0137500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34 S.
  • Range: 59 W.
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet west and 1400 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37104-A1—Trinchera, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Ustic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 472
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Manzanola
  • PSC - 8 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manzanola saline
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 25-B
  • Plant Association Name: Saline Overflow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR

    BOGR2

    GUTIE

    PASM

    PASM

    SPAI

    Boerhavia gracillima

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Gutierrezia

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sporobolus airoides

    slimstalk spiderling

    blue grama

    snakeweed

    western wheatgrass

    western wheatgrass

    alkali sacaton

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—8

    8—69

    41—81

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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

    0

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    1747

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    135

    356

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    11.1

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    11

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very fine and fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bt1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 7.0 very fine and fine roots; 45 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 111152; continuous - phpvsfiid 111152
    Bt2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots; 45 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 111153; continuous - phpvsfiid 111153
    Btk—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 25 percent clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 111154; patchy - phpvsfiid 111154
    BCk—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described;
    Bkny1—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout and 1 percent fine irregular salt masses throughout and 2 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bkny2—97 to 170 centimeters (38.2 to 66.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine irregular salt masses throughout and 2 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout and 2 percent medium irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog.; moist when described;