IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Levenmile
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988CO093009
  • User Pedon ID: 88CO093009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988CO093009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0986
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61104
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 39.0511093
  • Std. Longitude: -105.6050034
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 74W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: About 100 feet S and 100 feet W of NE corner
  • Map Unit: 106—Temdille-Levenmile sandy loams, 1 to 3 percent slopes complex
  • 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 Haplocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Levenmile
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Levenmile Propsd
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium
  • Landform: bajada
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    MUFI

    Artemisia frigida

    Muhlenbergia filiculmis

    prairie sagewort

    slimstem muhly

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—13

    13—137

    76—137

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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

    2

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    2713

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    270

    355

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    3.5

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5384
    Bw1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5385
    Bw2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5386
    Bw3—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P5387
    Bk—76 to 137 centimeters (29.9 to 53.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; sandy loam; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent coarse noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and 1 percent medium noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P5388
    C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; loamy sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 88P5389