IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kuma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CO063269A
  • User Pedon ID: 89CO063269A
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989CO063269A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0030
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61963
  • 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: 39.1186104
  • Std. Longitude: -102.1294479
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO063—Kit Carson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James W. Borchert, Alan Price and Dennis Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 269
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kuma
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic 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:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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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

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    1229

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    180

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P00171
    Ap2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P00172
    Btb—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; strong coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P00173
    Btkb—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 90P00174