IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Herbman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO642009MJM
  • User Pedon ID: S08CO069008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO642009MJM
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0133
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24038
  • 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: 40.3265839
  • Std. Longitude: -105.5660858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 73W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 906' West and 2051' South from the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 4—Catamount gravelly coarse sandy loam, 5 to 20 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-C5—Longs Peak, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, shallow Typic Haplocryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Herbman
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Herbman
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from granite
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered granite at 43cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/2008 (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 - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 18
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    JUCO6

    PICO

    PSMEG

    SYMPH

    Juniperus communis

    Pinus contorta

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Symphoricarpos

    common juniper

    lodgepole pine

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    snowberry

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    43 - 152

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

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—43

    43—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

    20

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    2561

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    342

    356

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    95

    6.1

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    052759

    Estes Park

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    Oe—; moderately decomposed plant material; Ksat of 300 um/s; very rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter, saturated paste.; observed in pit, small
    Bw—9 to 43 centimeters (3.5 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face gravelly coarse sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 9 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 2 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout and 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 09N00891; observed in pit, small
    Cr—43 to 152 centimeters (16.9 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; Ksat of 0.21 um/s; very slow permeability; fragments.; observed in pit, small