IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aridic Paleustoll
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89CO063271
  • User Pedon ID: 89CO063271
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 89CO063271
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0033
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61966
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.5277786
  • Std. Longitude: -103.1136093
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 51W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: .5 miles south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 76—Satanta loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO063—Kit Carson
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-FTM—Fort Morgan, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO063—Kit Carson County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39103-E1—Anton SE, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James W. Borchert and Dennis Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 271
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Satanta
  • PSC - 13 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/2013
  • Classifier - Mike Moore
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Platner
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Aridic Paleustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1989
  • Classifier - Jim Borchert
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits
  • Landform: upland plain
  • Ksat Class Upper: high
  • Ksat Class Lower: moderately high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ARFR4

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    Artemisia frigida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    prairie sagewort

    blue grama

    buffalograss

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    13—66

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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

    1

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    1470

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    135

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P0186
    Bt1—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; 2.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P0187
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; 45 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; 2.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P0188
    Btk—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds; medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P0189
    Bk1—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); 20 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 80 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; coarse irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P0190
    Bk2—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; loam; 21 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; coarse irregular carbonate masses and medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P0191
    Bk3—114 to 165 centimeters (44.9 to 65.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; 18 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6. Lab sample # 90P0192