IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kawuneeche
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997CO049002
  • User Pedon ID: 97CO049002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997CO049002
  • User Site Association ID: 8894
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - GL15
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0308
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10579
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 40.3483315
  • Std. Longitude: -105.8638916
  • 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, Clayton Kimmi, Melissa Trenchik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid Aquandic Cryaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • 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 - 8/20/1997
  • 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: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very long periods begining in jun
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 70
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/1997 (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

    ACHIL

    CAREX

    DECA18

    FRAGA

    JUBA

    PHAL2

    SALIX

    Achillea

    Carex

    Deschampsia caespitosa

    Fragaria

    Juncus balticus

    Phleum alpinum

    Salix

    yarrow

    sedge

    tufted hairgrass

    strawberry

    Baltic rush

    alpine timothy

    willow

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

    mollic epipedon

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    13—33

    25—88

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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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    2694

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    152

    660

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    2

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    Oe—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) peat; fragments.
    A—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), black (10YR 2/1), dry; loam; 13 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bg1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 3 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01878
    Bg2—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01879
    Bg3—58 to 88 centimeters (22.8 to 34.6 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; very fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01880
    2Cg—88 to 163 centimeters (34.6 to 64.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog.