IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955CO049007
  • User Pedon ID: S1955CO049007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955CO049007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3890
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39536
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 39.9069443
  • Std. Longitude: -105.9022217
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 76W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: Approximately the NE 1/4 of the NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Grand County, Colorado. About 0.1 mile north and 50 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 #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mine
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PICO

    Pinus contorta

    lodgepole pine

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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

    3

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    315

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    Ao—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A29791. A thin surface cover of last year's needle fall overlies this horizon. This horizon rests abruptly on the horizon below.
    A1—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A29792
    A3—11 to 18 centimeters (4.3 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A29793
    C1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A29794
    C2—36 to 54 centimeters (14.2 to 21.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; loose, very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A29795