IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bassel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958CO015003
  • User Pedon ID: S1958CO015003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958CO015003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3827
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39480
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.8127785
  • Std. Longitude: -105.9761124
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 77W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4
  • 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 #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bassel
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1957
  • 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: 9/1/1957 (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

    BOGR2

    MUTO2

    SALVI

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Salvia

    blue grama

    ring 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

    4

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    2835

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    90

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29395
    B21t—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29396. patchy - phpvsfiid 187544; patchy - phpvsfiid 187544
    B22t—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29397. patchy - phpvsfiid 196977; patchy - phpvsfiid 196977
    B3—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29398. patchy - phpvsfiid 196978; patchy - phpvsfiid 196978
    C—53 to 107 centimeters (20.9 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A29399
    Cca—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; 1 percent carbonate concretions; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A29400. This is a weak horizon of lime accumulation with some visible lime occurring as concretions and in finely divided forms; approximately 25 percent of this horizon is gravel.