IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grenadier
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988CO117001
  • User Pedon ID: 88CO117001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988CO117001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61134
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 39.4347229
  • Std. Longitude: -106.0677795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Area is unsurveyed. Site is approx. 8 km southwest of Breckenridge, CO. On east side of Mt. Helen between Crystal Creek and Spruce Creek
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO117—Summit
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Irvine, J.; Svatos, A.; Bauer, P.
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grenadier
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Dystric Cryochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ABLA

    PIEN

    VASC

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Picea engelmannii

    Vaccinium scoparium

    subalpine fir

    Engelmann spruce

    grouse whortleberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—30

    30—99

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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

    18

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    3388

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    90

    71

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); 2 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 16 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E—5 to 35 centimeters (2.0 to 13.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very stony loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; medium and coarse roots; very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00301; dry when described;
    Bw—35 to 104 centimeters (13.8 to 40.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; extremely stony sandy clay loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very weakly coherent, slightly sticky, nonplastic; medium roots; fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P00302; dry when described;
    C—104 to 157 centimeters (40.9 to 61.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 14 percent clay; massive; very hard, friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; fine roots; fine to coarse interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified.; dry when described;