IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wiley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991CO061001A
  • User Pedon ID: 91CO061001A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0776
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63815
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 38.4975014
  • Std. Longitude: -102.8397217
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 18
  • Location Description: Transect #3 175 feet east of center point satellite 1A.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO061—Kiowa
  • MLRA: 67—Central High Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bowman, Hawn, Wettstein
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wiley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Ustollic Haplargids
  • PSC - 13 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—43

    33—43

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    1284

    —

    0

    36

    —

    —

    11

    24

    —

    12

    24

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04497; wet when described;. few very fine roots throughout
    Bt—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, organic stains on faces of peds and 55 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 91P04498; moist when described;. few organic coats surface features on faces of peds; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 227009; patchy - phpvsfiid 227009
    Btk—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent distinct , moist, organic stains on faces of peds and 55 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 91P04499; moist when described;. few organic coats surface features on faces of peds; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 227011; patchy - phpvsfiid 227011