IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Platner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89CO063271A
  • User Pedon ID: 89CO063271A
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 89CO063271A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0562
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61664
  • 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
  • Location Description: East 0.2 miles from Road 2 and 0.5 miles South from 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: Dennis Moore and James W. Borchert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aridic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • 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 - Platner
  • PSC - 13 to 53 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:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • 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
  • 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—53

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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; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P3099. common very fine roots
    Bt1—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P3100. common very fine roots
    Bt2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; weak fine and medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P3100. common very fine roots
    Bk1—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. few fine roots
    Bk2—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; gradual smooth boundary. few fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    C1—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; gradual smooth boundary. few fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    C2—114 to 165 centimeters (44.9 to 65.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6.