IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kawuneeche
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997CO049001
  • User Pedon ID: 97CO049001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997CO049001
  • User Site Association ID: 8895
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - GL4
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0307
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10578
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.3044434
  • Std. Longitude: -105.8486099
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO049—Grand
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO651—Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, Parts of Boulder, Grand, and Larimer Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40105-C7—Grand Lake, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Borchert, Lee A. Neve, Natalie Pogue, Clayton Kimmi
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, subactive, nonacid Fluvaquentic Cryaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kawuneeche
  • PSC - 38 to 113 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rosane
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, paramicaceous Typic Cryaquoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/1997
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very long periods begining in jun
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 70
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Willow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    BEGL

    CAREX

    JUBA

    PICO

    PIEN

    SALIX

    Betula glandulosa

    Carex

    Juncus balticus

    Pinus contorta

    Picea engelmannii

    Salix

    resin birch

    sedge

    Baltic rush

    lodgepole pine

    Engelmann spruce

    willow

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    13—30

    30—58

    58—79

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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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    2655

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    200

    660

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    3

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    2

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    Oa—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; mucky peat; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01875
    A—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), black (10YR 2/1), dry; loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01876
    Bg—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3 percent medium irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01877
    2Cg1—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy coarse sand; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3 percent medium irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    2Cg2—79 to 152 centimeters (31.1 to 59.8 inches); dark greenish gray (10GY 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly loamy sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog.