IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rago
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CO063273
  • User Pedon ID: 89CO063273
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989CO063273
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0032
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61965
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.5388908
  • Std. Longitude: -102.9946747
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 50W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet east and 2,000 feet north of southeast 1/4
  • Map Unit: 74—Richfield silty clay loam, dry, 0 to 2 percent slopes, eroded
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James Borchert and Dennis Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 273
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rago
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/2014
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rago
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1989
  • Classifier - Jim Borchert
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: upland plain
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1989 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    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—135

    10—135

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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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    1439

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    135

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P0178. few patchy clay films on lower part; many very fine roots
    Bt—10 to 56 centimeters (3.9 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P0179. lower 1in is calcareous; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots
    Btk—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 2.82 um/s; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P0180. few clay films surface features; few very fine roots
    Btkb1—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 90P0181. crotvenea hole is lower part; difficult to see the boundary; common clay films surface features; few very fine roots
    Btkb2—122 to 135 centimeters (48.0 to 53.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 2.82 um/s; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P0182. common clay films surface features; few very fine roots
    Bkb—135 to 178 centimeters (53.1 to 70.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 90P0183. few very fine roots
    C1—178 to 284 centimeters (70.1 to 111.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; fragments. Lab sample # 90P0184
    C2—284 to 338 centimeters (111.8 to 133.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; fragments. Lab sample # 90P0185