IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiwan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO642007MJM
  • User Pedon ID: S08CO069009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO642007MJM
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0134
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24039
  • 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: 40.3336678
  • Std. Longitude: -105.5889740
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 73W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 489' North and 1877' West from the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 21—Legault very gravelly sandy loam, 15 to 45 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: Sandy-skeletal, micaceous Lithic Cryorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiwan
  • PSC - 25 to 47 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Legault
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2008
  • 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered granite at 47cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

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

    ABLA

    JUCO6

    PICO

    PSMEG

    RIAU

    SYMPH

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Juniperus communis

    Pinus contorta

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Ribes aureum

    Symphoricarpos

    subalpine fir

    common juniper

    lodgepole pine

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    golden currant

    snowberry

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    47 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    47—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

    18

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    2690

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    322

    356

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    95

    6.1

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    052759

    Estes Park

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 45 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments.; observed in pit, small
    C—15 to 47 centimeters (5.9 to 18.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face very gravelly coarse sand; 89 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 4 percent clay; single grain; nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 68 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 1 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout and 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 8 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat angular 75-100-250 millimeter granite fragments and 29 percent by volume nonflat angular 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 09N00892; observed in pit, small
    R—47 to 152 centimeters (18.5 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; Ksat of 0.1 um/s; impermeable permeability; fragments.; observed in pit, small