IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Enentah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997CO049005
  • User Pedon ID: 97CO049005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997CO049005
  • User Site Association ID: 8892
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - GL13
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0310
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10581
  • 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: 40.2808952
  • Std. Longitude: -105.8362427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 6—Enentah very stony loam, 10 to 40 percent slopes
  • 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: Lee A. Neve, Clayton Kimmi, Melissa Trenchik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic Typic Haplocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Enentah
  • PSC - 30 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ENENTAH
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/18/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Spruce-fir
  • 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

    ABLA

    CAGA3

    CAGE2

    GERAN

    LEKI2

    PICO

    ROWO

    SHCA

    VASC

    WYAM

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Carex garberi

    Carex geyeri

    Geranium

    Leucopoa kingii

    Pinus contorta

    Rosa woodsii

    Shepherdia canadensis

    Vaccinium scoparium

    Wyethia amplexicaulis

    subalpine fir

    elk sedge

    Geyer's sedge

    geranium

    spike fescue

    lodgepole pine

    Woods' rose

    russet buffaloberry

    grouse whortleberry

    mule-ears

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    5—13

    13—46

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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

    9

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    2707

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    230

    660

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    2

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Partially decomposed organic moss, lichens, and needles.
    E—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; very stony loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01884
    BC—46 to 102 centimeters (18.1 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P01885. One lamellae approximately 1/4 inch thick found between 30 and 40 inches deep.