IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Iliff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988CO063140
  • User Pedon ID: 88CO063140
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0530
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60648
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.1411095
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3916702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet S and 750 feet W of NE corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO063—Kit Carson

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 140
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Iliff
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Aridic Paleustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1988 (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
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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02689
    1Bt—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, black (10YR 2/1) interior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate coarse granular, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02690. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores
    1BCk—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior and brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam, clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. 10% gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Ck—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. 20% gravel.
    1Cr—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Soft limestone with hard caliche fragments.