IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Razor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CO073007
  • User Pedon ID: 89CO073007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0619
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61719
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.5961113
  • Std. Longitude: -103.4852753
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17S
  • Range: 54W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, 165 feet S of center of road and 10 feet E of NW corner
  • Location Description: Lincoln County, Colorado.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO073—Lincoln

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Ustertic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Razor
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ordway
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Ustollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1989 (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
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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; strong fine granular structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03430. no visible lime
    Bw—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03431. few soft masses of lime concentrations
    BCky—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03432. few threads of lime and gypsum
    Cky—51 to 97 centimeters (20.1 to 38.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.