IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kuma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988CO063183
  • User Pedon ID: 88CO063183
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0535
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60653
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 39.4174995
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5019455
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 70 feet S and 125 feet W of the SE corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO063—Kit Carson

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 183
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kuma
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1988 (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
    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
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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02699. common very fine roots
    1BAt—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02700. Marginal to clay loam.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots
    1Btb—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Marginal to clay loam.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    1Btkb—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. few very fine roots
    1Bk—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. few very fine roots
    1Ck—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. few very fine roots