IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CO063268A
  • User Pedon ID: 89CO063268A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61964
  • 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: 39.1191673
  • Std. Longitude: -102.1244431
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO063—Kit Carson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dennis Moore, Alan Price, Larry Brown and James Bo
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 268
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Norka
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1989 (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
    • 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

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    1229

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    180

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    Btk—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P00175
    Bt—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P00176
    Btk—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 90P00177