IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rocky Ford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989CO089001
  • User Pedon ID: 89CO089001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61106
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 38.0288887
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6663895
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 56W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 2050 feet E 700 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO089—Otero

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rocky Ford
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rocky Ford
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ustic Torriorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1989 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    1280

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    90

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00001
    Ap2a—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 89P00004
    Ap2—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00002
    Ap2b—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 89P00005
    Ap2c—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 89P00006
    Ck—36 to 81 centimeters (14.2 to 31.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P00003
    C—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. the C horizon was not sampled