IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monchego
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988CO093006
  • User Pedon ID: 88CO093006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988CO093006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0983
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61101
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.3583336
  • Std. Longitude: -105.7991638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 75W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: About 700 feet S and 1800 feet E of NW corner
  • Map Unit: 72—Monchego sandy loam, 0 to 1 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: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Ustic Haplocryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Monchego
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tineman-like
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (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

    ALPR3

    ARFR4

    HOJU

    JUBA

    Alopecurus pratensis

    Artemisia frigida

    Hordeum jubatum

    Juncus balticus

    meadow foxtail

    prairie sagewort

    foxtail barley

    Baltic rush

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—36

    48—152

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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

    1

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    2893

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    135

    400

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    2.2

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5362
    Oe—8 to 0 centimeters (3.1 to 0.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5361. intermediately decomposed fibrous materials
    A2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; sandy clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5363
    2Bw—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P5364
    2C1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; very gravelly coarse sand; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5365. few mottles occur scattered and difficult to locate
    2C2—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sand; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5366
    2C3—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), pale brown (10YR 6/3) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; very gravelly coarse sand; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    2C4—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very gravelly coarse sand; medium single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5367