IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cathedral
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CO642004MJM
  • User Pedon ID: S08CO642007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CO642004MJM
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0132
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24037
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.3376961
  • Std. Longitude: -105.5750580
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 73W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2001' East and 1978' North from the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 53—Chasmfalls coarse sandy loam, 1 to 15 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, micaceous, frigid Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cathedral
  • PSC - 25 to 47 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cathedral
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from granite
  • Landform: pediment
  • 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 47cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/16/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    ARTRV

    CHNA2

    POSE

    PUTR2

    RIAU

    Artemisia frigida

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Chrysothamnus nauseosus

    Poa secunda

    Purshia tridentata

    Ribes aureum

    prairie sagewort

    mountain big sagebrush

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    Sandberg bluegrass

    antelope bitterbrush

    golden currant

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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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—47

    47—152

    —47—

    —105—
    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

    8

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    2472

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    80

    356

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    95

    6.1

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    052759

    Estes Park

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 73 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular 20-45-75 millimeter granite fragments and 11 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 09N00888; observed in pit, small
    AB—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 74 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 29 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 2 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout and 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout; 14 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments and 14 percent by volume nonflat angular 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 09N00889; observed in pit, small
    C—25 to 47 centimeters (9.8 to 18.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 77 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 7 percent clay; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 61 percent mica flakes, biotite throughout and 3 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout and 2 percent mica flakes, muscovite throughout; 4 percent by volume nonflat angular 20-45-75 millimeter granite fragments and 14 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments and 32 percent by volume nonflat angular 5-10-20 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter, saturated paste. Lab sample # 09N00890; 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