IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Heath
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958CO015002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958CO015002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958CO015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3874
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39520
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.9141655
  • Std. Longitude: -106.0224991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 77W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: 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 #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Heath
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1958 (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

    BOGR2

    GUTIE

    MUTO2

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Gutierrezia

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    blue grama

    snakeweed

    ring muhly

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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

    4

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    2743

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    90

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29675
    AB—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; weak and moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29676. patchy - phpvsfiid 187541; patchy - phpvsfiid 187541
    B2t—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; weak and moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29677. patchy - phpvsfiid 187542; patchy - phpvsfiid 187542
    B3ca—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak and moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29678. patchy - phpvsfiid 187543; patchy - phpvsfiid 187543
    Cca—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29679
    C—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; gravelly clay loam; massive; hard, very friable; carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A29680