IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wetopa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CO051001
  • User Pedon ID: 90CO051001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990CO051001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0409
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62342
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 39.1158333
  • Std. Longitude: -107.3005524
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO051—Gunnison
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cryer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive Argic Pachic Cryoborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wetopa
  • PSC - 51 to 104 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wetopa
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Argic Pachic Cryoboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    AGSU

    AGTR

    POTR

    Agropyron subsecundum

    Agropyron trachycaulum

    Poa tracyi

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    Tracy's bluegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—51

    51—104

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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

    14

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    2798

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    315

    76

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed, dark gray (10YR 4/1) crushed, dry; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 medium roots between peds and 5.5 fine roots between peds; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;. many fine roots between peds; many medium roots between peds
    A2—10 to 51 centimeters (3.9 to 20.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 medium roots between peds and 5.5 fine roots between peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;. many fine roots between peds; many medium roots between peds
    Bt—51 to 104 centimeters (20.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; gravelly clay loam; 38 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 medium roots between peds and 2.5 fine roots between peds; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02253; moist when described;. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots between peds; common medium roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 224891; continuous - phpvsfiid 224891
    C—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, dry; stony clay loam; 32 percent clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue.; moist when described;. few fine roots between peds