IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Terry
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 12CO001001AWS
  • User Pedon ID: S12CO001001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 12CO001001AWS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7622
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55380
  • 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: 39.7449444
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9201667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 58W
  • Section: 31
  • Map Unit: TrE—Terry-Tassel-Ulm complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO001—Adams
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-FTM—Fort Morgan, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO001—Adams County Area, Parts of Adams and Denver Counties, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39103-G8—Poison Springs, Colorado
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andy Steinert, Mike Moore, Chad Remley, Bill Wehmueller, BJ Shoup
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Terry
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 95 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone and shale at 95cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/2011 (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 - 7
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BRTE

    CALO

    HECOC8

    PASM

    SPCR

    YUCCA

    Bromus tectorum

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Yucca

    cheatgrass

    prairie sandreed

    needle and thread

    western wheatgrass

    sand dropseed

    yucca

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

    bedrock, densic

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    moderately coherent

    95 -

    195 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    paralithic contact

    0—17

    17—44

    95—

    195—

    —17—

    —27—

    —-

    —-

    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

    1

    1564.2

    45

    A—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bw1—17 to 44 centimeters (6.7 to 17.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate coarse and very coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 28.225 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Bw2—44 to 77 centimeters (17.3 to 30.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, moist; loamy fine sand; 84 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 91.74 um/s; rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    2C—77 to 95 centimeters (30.3 to 37.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 33 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 32 percent clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium mottles; weak very fine granular structure; loose, loose, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 2.82 um/s; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 very fine roots in cracks; 10 percent medium and coarse irregular carbonate masses around rock fragments; 80 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-5-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    2Cd—95 to 195 centimeters (37.4 to 76.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, moist; fine sand; 94 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 1 percent clay; 2 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine mottles; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 1.41 um/s; slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter. Lab sample # 12N01021; observed in trench
    2Cr—195 to 206 centimeters (76.8 to 81.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face, gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face, moist; bedrock; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium and coarse mottles; extremely hard, extremely firm; Ksat of 0.705 um/s; slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench