IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CO063001
  • User Pedon ID: 90CO063001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0041
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63088
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.2991676
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5199966
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 385 feet S and 55 feet E, NW corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO063—Kit Carson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Bordert, Gene Kelly, and Alan Price
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Norka
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1990 (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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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 91P00242
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse platy structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00236. common very fine and fine roots
    Bt—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00237. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots
    Btk—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00238. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots
    Bk1—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00239. common very fine and fine roots
    Bk2—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00240. few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    Bk3—97 to 150 centimeters (38.2 to 59.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silt loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 91P00241. few very fine and fine roots