IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dalerose
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CO628002
  • User Pedon ID: 99CO628002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 99CO628002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0134
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11642
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.4185556
  • Std. Longitude: -103.2941583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30 S.
  • Range: 52 W.
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet east and 2,400 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: DaE—Dalerose-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 67—Central High Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37103-D3—Robbers Roost Canyon, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 773
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dalerose
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/1999
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dalerose
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/1999
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits and/or residuum weathered from noncalcareous sandstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: scarp
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, noncalcareous at 33cm
  • Geology: Dakota Sandstone formation of the Dakota Sandstone group.
  • Surface Fragments: 12.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1-79
  • Plant Association Name: Sandstone Breaks #56
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARLOG

    BOGR2

    ERIOG

    JUMO

    MURI

    OPPO

    Aristida longispica var. geniculata

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Eriogonum

    Juniperus monosperma

    Muhlenbergia richardsonis

    Opuntia polyacantha

    slimspike threeawn

    blue grama

    buckwheat

    oneseed juniper

    mat muhly

    plains pricklypear

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    bedrock, lithic

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    indurated

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    33 - 200

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    33—152

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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

    4

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    1592

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    288

    381

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    11.1

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    A2—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8.0 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bk—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; channery loam; 20 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary.; dry when described;
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments.