IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiamovi
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997CO049006
  • User Pedon ID: 97CO049006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997CO049006
  • User Site Association ID: 8893
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - GL14C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0312
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10583
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.3463898
  • Std. Longitude: -105.8527756
  • 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: Lee A. Neve, Nathan Storck, Melissa Trenchik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, micaceous Lithic Dystrocryepts
  • 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 #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiamovi
  • PSC - 30 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiamovi
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, paramicaceous Lithic Cryochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: h moderate weathered mixed-igneous and metamorphic
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Pico
  • 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

    ARCTO3

    PICO

    ROWO

    SHCA

    VASC

    WYAM

    Arctostaphylos

    Pinus contorta

    Rosa woodsii

    Shepherdia canadensis

    Vaccinium scoparium

    Wyethia amplexicaulis

    manzanita

    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

    lithic contact

    5—23

    23—48

    48—0

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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

    38

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    2798

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    220

    660

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    3

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    2

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    Oe—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Moderately decomposed needles, moss and lichens.
    E—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine to coarse roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01888. This horizon grades to soft schist about 1 inch thick.
    R—48 to 152 centimeters (18.9 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Hard fractured schist and gneiss.