IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guffey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988CO119003
  • User Pedon ID: 88CO119003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0125
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60248
  • 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: 38.8880539
  • Std. Longitude: -105.2463913
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 70W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1050 feet E and 1200 feet N of SW corner
  • Map Unit: 17—Catamount-Guffey complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO119—Teller
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO638—Teller-Park Area, Colorado, Parts of Park and Teller Counties

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Ustic Haplocryalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guffey
  • PSC - 30 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Guffey
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or residuum
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: granite
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    66 - 102

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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

    25

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    2745

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    315

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    E1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. 60% gravel.
    Oe—3 to 0 centimeters (1.2 to 0.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.
    E2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P0666. 60% gravel.
    Bt—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. 50% gravel.; continuous - phpvsfiid 795675; continuous - phpvsfiid 795675
    Cr—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Diggable granite.