IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Penrose
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96CO628024
  • User Pedon ID: 96CO628024
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 96CO628024
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 67bTCO628188-PnD
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Transect Interval - 100.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0293
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68765
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.3364444
  • Std. Longitude: -103.1846667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31 S.
  • Range: 51 W.
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 2,050 feet east and 150 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: about 2,050 feet east and 150 feet south of the northwest corner of section 19, T. 31S., R. 51W.
  • Map Unit: PnD—Penrose loam, moist, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37103-C2—Andrix, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, mesic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 714
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Penrose
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, carbonatic, mesic Lithic Ustic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 0 to 20 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/19/1996
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: scarp
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone and shale at 25cm
  • Geology: Fort Hayes Limestone member of the Niobrara formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/19/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 33-F
  • Plant Association Name: Limestone breaks #58
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARBI3

    ARLOG

    GUSA2

    SCSC

    SPCR

    STIPA

    YUCCA

    Artemisia bigelovii

    Aristida longispica var. geniculata

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Stipa

    Yucca

    Bigelow sage

    slimspike threeawn

    broom snakeweed

    little bluestem

    sand dropseed

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    yucca

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, lithic

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    20 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    20—152

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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

    4

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; 18 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    C—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; channery loam; 23 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    R—25 to 183 centimeters (9.8 to 72.0 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments.