IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guffey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988CO119005
  • User Pedon ID: 88CO119005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0978
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61096
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.8888893
  • Std. Longitude: -105.2472229
  • 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 #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Guffey
  • PSC - 30 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2011
  • 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 - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: granite at 66cm
  • Geology: Pikes Peak Granite formation.
  • 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 - 104

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—30

    30—66

    66—104

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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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    2743

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    315

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; gravelly very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5331
    Oe—3 to 0 centimeters (1.2 to 0.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5330. all litter; 1/2" of undecomposed over fairly well decomposed
    E1—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 55 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5332
    E2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 55 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P5333. has more medium and coarse sand than E1; maybe intermittent, observed adjacent to a pocket of grx-sl about 8" diameter at largest section
    Bt—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 50 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P5334
    Cr—66 to 104 centimeters (26.0 to 40.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), dry; loamy coarse sand; fragments. Lab sample # 88P5335. diggable pp granite