IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Almagre
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999CO071006
  • User Pedon ID: 99CO071006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999CO071006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0138
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11646
  • 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: 37.6364136
  • Std. Longitude: -104.3106918
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28S
  • Range: 62W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet east and 2500 feet north of the SW corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37104-F3—Jones Lake Spring, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lee A. Neve
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Haplargids
  • 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 #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Almagre
  • PSC - 23 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilid
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Haplar
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1999
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: playa
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: h sandstone, noncalcareous
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1-114
  • Plant Association Name: Loamy Plains #6
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSM

    ARLO3

    BOGR2

    HIJA

    PASM

    SIHY

    Agropyron smithii

    Aristida longiseta

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Hilaria jamesii

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sitanion hystrix

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    blue grama

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    western wheatgrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    23—76

    107—127

    127—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

    1

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    1645

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    156

    203

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    10

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P01055
    AB—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P01056. patchy - phpvsfiid 201965; patchy - phpvsfiid 201965
    Btk1—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P01057. continuous - phpvsfiid 201966; continuous - phpvsfiid 201966
    Btk2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P01058. continuous - phpvsfiid 201967; continuous - phpvsfiid 201967
    BCk—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P01059
    Bk—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 00P01059
    R—127 centimeters (50.0 inches); fragments. hard Dakota sandstone.