IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mummy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998CO069004
  • User Pedon ID: 98CO069004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998CO069004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10902
  • 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: 40.5074997
  • Std. Longitude: -105.6602783
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 0.1 miles southwest of Flint Pass in Rocky Mountain National Park
  • 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: Mike Peterson Melissa Trenchik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Humic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mummy
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mummy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, paramicaceous Typic Cryumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1998
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.50 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Poal2/Kobe*
  • 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

    ORTHO

    POAL2

    Artemisia scopulorum

    Carex

    Geum rossii

    Orthocarpus

    Poa alpina

    alpine sagebrush

    sedge

    Ross' avens

    owl's-clover

    alpine bluegrass

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—33

    33—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

    23

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    3566

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    265

    889

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    2.2

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    1.7

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; gravelly loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    A2—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; very gravelly loam; 8 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 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; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw1—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw2—53 to 100 centimeters (20.9 to 39.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent distinct silt coats on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 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 4.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P00233; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 200962; continuous - phpvsfiid 200962