IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tabernash
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955CO049006
  • User Pedon ID: S1955CO049006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0180
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32709
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 39.9174843
  • Std. Longitude: -105.8847656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 76W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: Approximately the SW 1/4 of the NE 1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.1 miles north and 190 feet west of the Forest Service headquarters building on the road to Fraser.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO049—Grand
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO649—Grand County Area, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tabernash
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: outwash terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    Ao—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A01332. Partially decomposed organic material; the horizon rests abruptly on the horizon below.
    A2—3 to 21 centimeters (1.2 to 8.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; loam; weak medium and coarse platy parts to weak and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01333
    B1—21 to 33 centimeters (8.3 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; light gray (10YR 7/2) coats on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01334. continuous - phpvsfiid 187932; continuous - phpvsfiid 187932
    B21—33 to 59 centimeters (13.0 to 23.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; silty clay; weak and moderate very coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; light gray (10YR 7/2) coats on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01335. continuous - phpvsfiid 187933; continuous - phpvsfiid 187933
    B22—59 to 84 centimeters (23.2 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; silty clay; weak and moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; light gray (10YR 7/2) coats on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01336. continuous - phpvsfiid 187925; continuous - phpvsfiid 187925
    B3—84 to 100 centimeters (33.1 to 39.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; sandy clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; light gray (10YR 7/2) coats on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01337. continuous - phpvsfiid 187926; continuous - phpvsfiid 187926
    C—100 to 125 centimeters (39.4 to 49.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable; 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A01338. The horizon grades into water washed cobble and gravel strata.