IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moen

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S2008CO642016MJM

User Pedon ID: S08CO069006

Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO642016MJM

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 09N0131

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24036

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: 40.3958626

Std. Longitude: -105.4680862

Datum: WGS84

Township: 5N

Range: 72W

Section: 16

PLSS Details: 2031' East and 853' North from the southwest corner

Map Unit: 2717B—Cypher-Wetmore-Ratake families complex, 5 to 40 percent slopes

State: Colorado

County: CO069—Larimer

MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO642—Estes Park Area, Colorado, Parts of Boulder and Larimer Counties

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40105-D4—Glen Haven, Colorado

PEDON

Describers Name: Mike Moore

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, micaceous, frigid Alfic Argiustolls

Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct

Pedon Type: map unit inclusion

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Pedon #: 16

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Moen

PSC - 36 to 57 cm.

Classificaton Date - 4/11/2012

Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition

Moisture Class - ustic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Moen

Classificaton Date - 6/19/2008

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from schist

Landform: mountain slope

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Runoff: medium

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered schist, unspecified at 96cm

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 6/19/2008 (actual site observation date)

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Current Weather - sunny

Current Air Temp - 21

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
ARFR4 BOGR2 PASM PIPO	Artemisia frigida Bouteloua gracilis Pascopyrum smithii Pinus ponderosa	prairie sagewort blue grama western wheatgrass ponderosa pine	— — — —	— — — —	— — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, paralithic	weakly coherent	96 - 152	- 56 -

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
mollic epipedon argillic horizon paralithic contact	0—22 36—57 96—152	—22— —21— —56—

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
7	—	—	2375	—	320	356	—	95	6.1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	052759	Estes Park	—

A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.9, bromthymol blue.; observed in pit, small

Bw1—9 to 22 centimeters (3.5 to 8.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.9, bromthymol blue.; observed in pit, small

Bw2—22 to 36 centimeters (8.7 to 14.2 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 79 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 46 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 4 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout and 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout and 1 percent mica flakes, mixed throughout; 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-10-20 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-5 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 09N00886; observed in pit, small

Bt—36 to 57 centimeters (14.2 to 22.4 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 72 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 65 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 2 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout and 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-10-20 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments and 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-5 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 09N00887; observed in pit, small

C—57 to 96 centimeters (22.4 to 37.8 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 16 percent clay; massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, bromthymol blue.; observed in pit, small

Cr—96 to 152 centimeters (37.8 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; very slow permeability; fragments.; observed in pit, small