IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mummy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998CO069001
  • User Pedon ID: 98CO069001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998CO069001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10899
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.5430565
  • Std. Longitude: -105.6797256
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 74W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 2,500 feet east and 1,800 feet north of the southwest corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO069—Larimer
  • 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-E6—Comanche Peak, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Borchert Jodie Boyce
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, micaceous Typic Cryorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mummy
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mummy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, paramicaceous Typic Cryumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: s moderate weathered igneous, coarse crystal
  • Surface Fragments: 8.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: kobe+/arsc
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, tundra
  • 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

    ARSC

    CAREX

    GERO2

    MYAL

    ORTHO

    Artemisia scopulorum

    Carex

    Geum rossii

    Myosotis alpestris

    Orthocarpus

    alpine sagebrush

    sedge

    Ross' avens

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    owl's-clover

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—102

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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

    11

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    3764

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    10

    889

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    1.7

    5.6

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    2.2

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 12.0 very fine and fine roots and 5.0 medium roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P00226; moist when described;
    Bw1—25 to 55 centimeters (9.8 to 21.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P00227; moist when described;
    Bw2—55 to 100 centimeters (21.7 to 39.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 7 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P00228; moist when described;