IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trementina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96CO628029
  • User Pedon ID: 96CO628029
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 96CO628029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0585
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10266
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.1999000
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6104417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33 S.
  • Range: 55 W.
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet east and 2000 feet south of northwest corner
  • Map Unit: TbA—Trementina silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling 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-B5—Tobe, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 708
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trementina
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/10/1996
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/10/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 29-E
  • Plant Association Name: loamy
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    CHRYS9

    GRSQ

    GUSA2

    KRLA2

    MUTO2

    OPIMI

    PASM

    SPCR

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Chrysothamnus

    Grindelia squarrosa

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Krascheninnikovia lanata

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Opuntia imbricata var. imbricata

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    rabbitbrush

    curlycup gumweed

    broom snakeweed

    winterfat

    ring muhly

    tree cholla

    western wheatgrass

    sand dropseed

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—142

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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

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    1778

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    342

    381

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    11.7

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in trench
    BA—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bt—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 276025; patchy - phpvsfiid 276025
    Btk—51 to 117 centimeters (20.1 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 8 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 276026; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 276026
    BCk—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium distinct irregular carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    2C—142 to 160 centimeters (55.9 to 63.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium distinct irregular carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-125-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog.; dry when described;