IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boyle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991CO055008
  • User Pedon ID: 91CO055008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991CO055008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P1070
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64107
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.9305573
  • Std. Longitude: -105.2002792
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24S
  • Range: 70W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: SW NE
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO055—Huerfano
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO636—Wet Mountains and Spanish Peaks Area, Colorado, Parts of Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, Las Animas, and Pueblo Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37105-H2—Bear Creek, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boyle
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, shallow Aridic Argiborolls
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1991 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    KOMA

    MUMO

    Koeleria macrantha

    Muhlenbergia montana

    prairie Junegrass

    mountain muhly

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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

    3

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    2743

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    45

    41

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P06992. many fine roots; many very fine roots
    A2—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P06993. many fine roots; many very fine roots
    A3—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P06994. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium roots; common fine roots
    Bt—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P06995. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; few medium roots
    CR—43 to 109 centimeters (16.9 to 42.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 91P06996. weathered Huerfano conglomerate which weathers to extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand