IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Redspoon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988CO093004
  • User Pedon ID: 88CO093004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988CO093004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0981
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61099
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.0408325
  • Std. Longitude: -105.9169464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 76W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: About 600 feet S and 1100 feet E of NW corner
  • Map Unit: 83—Redspoon loamy fine sand, 2 to 10 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO093—Park
  • MLRA: 48B—Southern Rocky Mountain Parks and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO638—Teller-Park Area, Colorado, Parts of Park and Teller Counties

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Ustic Haplocryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Redspoon
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Redspoon
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium
  • Landform: pediment
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone, unspecified at 64cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CHRYS9

    ERIOG

    FEAR2

    KOCR

    MUFI

    PASM

    TETRA3

    Chrysothamnus

    Eriogonum

    Festuca arizonica

    Koeleria cristata

    Muhlenbergia filiculmis

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Tetradymia

    rabbitbrush

    buckwheat

    Arizona fescue

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    slimstem muhly

    western wheatgrass

    horsebrush

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    64 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    20—64

    64—

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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

    8

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    2780

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    225

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; loamy fine sand; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5350
    A2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5351
    Bw1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dry; parachannery very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5352
    Bw2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; extremely parachannery very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 65 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5353
    Bw3—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; extremely parachannery very fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 65 percent by volume flat moderately coherent cemented 2-60-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P5353
    Crk—64 centimeters (25.2 inches);, reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), dry; bedrock; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 88P5354. loamstone/siltstone with apparently occasional pockets several miles wide of more weathered in upper 6 inches