IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buena Vista
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958CO015007
  • User Pedon ID: S1958CO015007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958CO015007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0142
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32684
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 77W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: SE 1/4 of Section 2, T15S, R77W, Chaffee County, CO.
  • 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 #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buena Vista
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1958
  • 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: 10/1/1958 (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

    SALVI

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    Salvia

    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

    5

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    2979

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    225

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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; sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01012
    AB—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; stony sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 10 percent clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 25 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01013. There are a few thin patchy clay skins principally on the horizontal faces of the soil aggregates; approximately 25 to 50 percent of this horizon is stone.; patchy - phpvsfiid 187690; patchy - phpvsfiid 187690
    B2t—13 to 76 centimeters (5.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; stony sandy clay loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; clay films and clay films; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A01014. Approximately 90 percent of this horizon is stone; it is difficult to get whole soil aggregates from this horizon, however, there appears to be thin nearly continuous clay skins on those aggregates which we were able to observe, and the surface of the stone has a dark coating interpreted to be a clay film.; continuous - phpvsfiid 187691; continuous - phpvsfiid 187691