IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kuma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CO063003
  • User Pedon ID: 90CO063003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0043
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63090
  • 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: 39.2991676
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5186081
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 385 feet S and 450 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO063—Kit Carson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Borchert and A. Price
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kuma
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Pachic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: drainageway
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    1

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    1313

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    41

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00252. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 91P00259
    AB1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak platy, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00253. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many fine roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 226132; patchy - phpvsfiid 226132
    AB2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak platy, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00254. many fine roots throughout; many very fine roots throughout
    AB3—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; skeletans over cutans and 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00255. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; many fine roots throughout; patchy - phpvsfiid 226133; patchy - phpvsfiid 226133
    Btb1—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent skeletans over cutans; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00256. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many skeletans over cutans surface features; common very fine roots throughout; many fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 226135; continuous - phpvsfiid 226135
    Btb2—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very fine roots throughout and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 37 percent skeletans over cutans and 55 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P00257. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common skeletans over cutans surface features; many fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 226137; patchy - phpvsfiid 233880; continuous - phpvsfiid 226137; patchy - phpvsfiid 233880
    Btb3—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 91P00258. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; common very fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 233881; continuous - phpvsfiid 233881