IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiwan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO642013MJM
  • User Pedon ID: S08CO069010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO642013MJM
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0135
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24040
  • 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: 40.4157791
  • Std. Longitude: -105.4618301
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 72W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 2579' West and 2625' South from the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 4703D—Bullwark-Catamount families-Rock outcrop complex, 40 to 150 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: Sandy-skeletal, micaceous Lithic Cryorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiwan
  • PSC - 28 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiamovi
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from granite
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated granite at 41cm
  • Surface Fragments: 30.00 percent nonflat subangular 2- to 75-millimeter granite, 30.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter granite, 15.00 percent nonflat subangular 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 15.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular 600- to 2450-millimeter granite, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 600- to 2450-millimeter granite, 30.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter granite, 30.00 percent nonflat subangular 75- to 250-millimeter granite,
  • 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

    ARUV

    PIPO

    POTR5

    PSMEG

    RIAU

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Pinus ponderosa

    Populus tremuloides

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Ribes aureum

    kinnikinnick

    ponderosa pine

    quaking aspen

    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    golden currant

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    41 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    3—13

    41—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

    38

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    2568

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    312

    356

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    95

    6.1

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    052759

    Estes Park

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; Ksat of 300 um/s; very rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; gravelly sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter, saturated paste.; observed in pit, small
    Bw—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 79 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 31 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 19 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout; 12 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 20-45-75 millimeter granite fragments and 16 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments and 19 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 09N00893; observed in pit, small
    R—41 to 152 centimeters (16.1 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; Ksat of 0.1 um/s; impermeable permeability; fragments.; observed in pit, small