IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fuera
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93CO628014
  • User Pedon ID: 93CO628014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2023CO071036
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66206
  • User Project ID: 2023 - SW-SAN - 70A.3
  • Project Name: MLRA 70A.3 - Update to Volcanic Plateaus LRU
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.0318611
  • Std. Longitude: -104.4910556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34 S.
  • Range: 63 W.
  • PLSS Details: unsectionalized area about 4650 feet north and 1800 feet east of I-25 (exit 8)
  • Map Unit: DFV—Fuera-Dargol-Vamer complex, 10 to 45 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 49—Southern Rocky Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, frigid Lamellic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 634
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fuera
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, frigid Lamellic Haplustalfs
  • PSC - 15 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1993
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock and/or residuum weathered from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered interbedded sedimentary
  • Geology: Raton formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2-10
  • Plant Association Name: Ponderosa pine
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    JUOS

    JUSC2

    PIPO

    QUGA

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Juniperus scopulorum

    Pinus ponderosa

    Quercus gambelii

    Utah juniper

    Rocky Mountain juniper

    ponderosa pine

    Gambel oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    157 - 183

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

    argillic horizon

    15—86

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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

    24

    23

    45.7

    2268

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    294

    457

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    6.7

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 009-001
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 15.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments and 30 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; 6 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 009-002; moist when described;
    Bt1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) exterior, brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 15.0 medium roots throughout; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments and 28 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; 6.1999998 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 009-003; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 111131; continuous - phpvsfiid 111131
    Bt2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments and 23 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; 6.1999998 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 009-004; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 111132; continuous - phpvsfiid 111132
    Bt3—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 17 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; 6.8000002 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 009-005; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 111133; continuous - phpvsfiid 111133
    BC—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; 6.8000002 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 009-006; moist when described;
    C—127 to 157 centimeters (50.0 to 61.8 inches); 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior and 50 percent gray (10YR 5/1) exterior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, moist; gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 17 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments and 25 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, noncalcareous fragments; 7 Bromthymol blue; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 009-007; moist when described;
    Cr—157 to 178 centimeters (61.8 to 70.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.