IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stecum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957CO015004
  • User Pedon ID: S1957CO015004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957CO015004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3919
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39565
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Trout Creek Watershed, Chaffee County, Colorado.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO015—Chaffee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO658—Chaffee-Lake Area, Colorado, Parts of Chaffee and Lake Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. J. Cline
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stecum
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/1957 (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

    BOUTE

    CERCO

    MUWR

    SALVI

    Bouteloua

    Cercocarpus

    Muhlenbergia wrightii

    Salvia

    grama

    mountain mahogany

    spike muhly

    sage

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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

    35

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    3019

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    180

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30001
    AB—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30002. patchy - phpvsfiid 187545; patchy - phpvsfiid 187545
    C1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sand; single grain; slightly hard, very friable; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30003
    C2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A30004. This horizon is partially disintegrated granite and biotite schist rocks.