IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Guero
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CO085001
  • User Pedon ID: 90CO085001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990CO085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0412
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62345
  • 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: 38.5077782
  • Std. Longitude: -107.4997253
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO085—Montrose
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cryer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed 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 - Guero
  • PSC - 43 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Guero
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Argic Pachic Cryoboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • 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 - 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAPA2

    FEAR2

    FETH

    Danthonia parryi

    Festuca arizonica

    Festuca thurberi

    Parry's oatgrass

    Arizona fescue

    Thurber's fescue

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    43—76

    —-

    —-
    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

    7

    —

    —

    2968

    —

    135

    91

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 43 centimeters (0.0 to 16.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bt—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) exterior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) exterior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, dry; cobbly clay; 42 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02256; moist when described;. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 224894; continuous - phpvsfiid 224894
    BCt—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) exterior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dry; cobbly sandy clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224895; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 224895
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; cobbly sandy clay loam; 29 percent clay; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue.; moist when described;