IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bacid
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CO073141
  • User Pedon ID: 99CO073141
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0694
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54938
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024
  • 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: 38.5708917
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8431333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 S.
  • Range: 58 W.
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2640 feet east and 1676 feet north of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: 129—Fort loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO073—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PUE—Pueblo, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO073—Lincoln County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38103-E7—Walker Point, Colorado
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Ustic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bacid
  • PSC - 8 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Deertrail
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or residuum weathered from shale
  • Landform: fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pierre Shale formation of the Pierre group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap

    Ap

    Bt

    Bt

    Btk1

    Btk1

    0

    0

    8

    8

    20

    20

    8

    8

    20

    20

    33

    33

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap

    Ap

    Bt

    Bt

    Btk1

    Btk1

    0

    0

    8

    8

    20

    20

    8

    8

    20

    20

    33

    33

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap

    Ap

    Bt

    Bt

    Btk1

    Btk1

    0

    0

    8

    8

    20

    20

    8

    8

    20

    20

    33

    33

    0

    3

    14

    0

    0

    1

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—61

    —-

    —-

    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

    2.5

    130

    330

    10

    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03840
    Bt—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03841
    Btk1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03842
    Btk2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; 35 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 20 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; gradual smooth boundary.
    Cy—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), 2.5Y 5/5 (2.5Y 5/5), moist; 34 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4 percent fine distinct irregular gypsum masses in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0.