IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Platner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988CO063251
  • User Pedon ID: 88CO063251
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0537
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60655
  • 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: 39.3238907
  • Std. Longitude: -102.8177795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 49W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet W and 2500 feet N of SE corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO063—Kit Carson

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Aridic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 251
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Platner
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Aridic Paleustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1988 (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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam, sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02703. 2% very fine gravel.; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; clay; strong medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02704. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bk—36 to 81 centimeters (14.2 to 31.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, 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; abrupt smooth boundary. few very fine roots
    2Ck—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog.