IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Villegreen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993CO071007
  • User Pedon ID: 93CO071007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993CO071007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66204
  • Print Date: 9/23/2024

    • 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: 37.4025002
  • Std. Longitude: -103.5447235
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30S
  • Range: 55W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet east and 2200 feet south of the northwest corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 67—Central High Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37103-D5—Plum Canyon, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lee A. Neve, Felix Panlasigui
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcidic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Villegreen
  • PSC - 15 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Villegreen
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ustollic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/14/1993
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 91.44 cm of Depth to bedroc


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered sandstone, noncalcareous
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/14/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1-9
  • Plant Association Name: Loamy Plains
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSM

    BOGR

    BOGR2

    PASM

    YUCCA

    Agropyron smithii

    Boerhavia gracillima

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Yucca

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    slimstalk spiderling

    blue grama

    western wheatgrass

    yucca

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—15

    15—58

    38—84

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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

    1

    —

    —

    1689

    —

    110

    381

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    11.1

    22.2

    0.6

    10

    17.2

    2.2

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 25.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00085; moist when described;
    BA—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 20.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00086; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 176805; continuous - phpvsfiid 176805
    Bt1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 25.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00087; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 176806; continuous - phpvsfiid 176806
    Bt2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 20.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; 8 Thymol-blue; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00088; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 176807; continuous - phpvsfiid 176807
    Btk—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 15.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine spherical carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 8.39999962 Thymol-blue; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00089; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 176808; continuous - phpvsfiid 176808
    Bk—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) exterior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior, moist; loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 10 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 8.39999962 Thymol-blue; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00090; moist when described;. This horizon contains a high percentage of disseminated lime.
    Cr—84 to 91 centimeters (33.1 to 35.8 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 94P00091
    R—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 94P00092