IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Heath
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958CO015004
  • User Pedon ID: S1958CO015004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958CO015004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3875
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39521
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 38.8927765
  • Std. Longitude: -106.0041656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 77W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • 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 #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Heath
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mountain
  • 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

    MUTO2

    PASM

    SALVI

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Salvia

    ring muhly

    western wheatgrass

    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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    2743

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    90

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29681
    AB—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry; clay loam; strong medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29682. patchy - phpvsfiid 196979; patchy - phpvsfiid 196979
    B2t—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; clay loam; weak and moderate medium prismatic parts to weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29683. patchy - phpvsfiid 187693; patchy - phpvsfiid 187693
    B3ca—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; weak medium prismatic parts to weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29684. This is a weak horizon of lime accumulation with some visible lime occurring in thin seams and streaks.; patchy - phpvsfiid 187694; patchy - phpvsfiid 187694
    Cca—66 to 147 centimeters (26.0 to 57.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry; clay loam; massive, and weak medium subangular blocky; hard, friable; 1 percent carbonate concretions and gypsum threads; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29685. This is a weak to moderate horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring as concretion and in thin seams and streaks.
    D—147 to 152 centimeters (57.9 to 59.8 inches); fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A29686. Partially weathered calcareous Pennsylvanian shale. This horizon was not sampled.