IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Juget
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO642006MJM
  • User Pedon ID: S08CO069011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO642006MJM
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0136
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24041
  • 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: 40.3733597
  • Std. Longitude: -105.5211105
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 73W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1949' West and 2280' South from the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 2705D—Ratake-Cathedral 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-C5—Longs Peak, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, micaceous, frigid Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Juget
  • PSC - 0 to 21 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cathedral
  • 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, upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered granite at 21cm
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subangular 2- to 75-millimeter granite, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular 2- to 75-millimeter granite, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular 75- to 250-millimeter granite, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular 75- to 250-millimeter granite,
  • 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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 18
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    FEAR2

    PIPO

    PUTR2

    Artemisia frigida

    Festuca arizonica

    Pinus ponderosa

    Purshia tridentata

    prairie sagewort

    Arizona fescue

    ponderosa pine

    antelope bitterbrush

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    21 - 152

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—21

    21—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

    42

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    2344

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    220

    356

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    95

    6.1

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    052759

    Estes Park

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    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 79 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 7 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 34 percent mica flakes, biotite and 6 percent mica flakes, muscovite; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 20-45-75 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-100-250 millimeter granite fragments and 14 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments. Lab sample # 09N00894; observed in pit, small
    C—11 to 21 centimeters (4.3 to 8.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 16 percent clay; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-100-250 millimeter granite fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments. Lab sample # 09N00894; observed in pit, small
    R—21 to 152 centimeters (8.3 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; Ksat of 0.1 um/s; impermeable permeability; fragments.; observed in pit, small