IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Villegreen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96CO628034
  • User Pedon ID: 96CO628034
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 96CO628034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0296
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68768
  • 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: 37.2074722
  • Std. Longitude: -103.1770833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32 S.
  • Range: 51 W.
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 850 feet west and 200 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: WC—Plughat-Villegreen complex, 1 to 4 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-B2—Pintada Creek, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcidic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 718
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Villegreen
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Calcidic Haplustalfs
  • PSC - 5 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/19/1996
  • 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: loess derived from sedimentary rock over residuum weathered from noncalcareous sandstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered sandstone, noncalcareous at 97cm
  • Geology: Dakota formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/19/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 33-D
  • 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
    • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Bt

    Btk

    Bk

    Cr

    8

    30

    48

    81

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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

    Bt

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    Bk

    Cr

    8

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    48

    81

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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 %

    Bt

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    8

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

    ARLOG

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    GUSA2

    MURI

    PASM

    SPCR

    Aristida longispica var. geniculata

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Muhlenbergia richardsonis

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    slimspike threeawn

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    broom snakeweed

    mat muhly

    western wheatgrass

    sand dropseed

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    indurated

    58 - 97

    97 -

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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

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—38

    20—97

    81—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

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    381

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 20.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 007-001; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine interstitial pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 007-003; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 276347; patchy - phpvsfiid 276347
    Btk—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct spherical carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 007-005; dry when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 276348; patchy - phpvsfiid 276348
    Bk—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), moist; gravelly silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine discontinuous tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 007-006; dry when described;. This horizon contains a high percentage of disseminated lime.
    Cr—81 to 127 centimeters (31.9 to 50.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary.
    R—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments.