IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trout Creek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958CO015011
  • User Pedon ID: S1958CO015011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958CO015011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3926
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39572
  • 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: 38.9072227
  • Std. Longitude: -106.1138916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 77W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4
  • 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 #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trout Creek
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • 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

    BRMA4

    KOELE

    MUTO2

    Bromus marginatus

    Koeleria

    Muhlenbergia torreyi

    mountain brome

    Junegrass

    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

    12

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    2865

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    90

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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; loam; moderate and strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30044
    AB—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; loam; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A30045. patchy - phpvsfiid 187686; patchy - phpvsfiid 187686
    B2t—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30046. continuous - phpvsfiid 187677; continuous - phpvsfiid 187677
    B3—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry; clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate and strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A30047. There is some partially weathered shale chips in this horizon.
    C—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; clay; massive, and weak medium angular blocky; very hard, firm; limestone, unspecified fragments and sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A30048. This is a horizon of partially weathered Pennsylvanian shale with interbedded limestone strata. Scattered limestone and sandstone rock occur throughout the profile above horizon 12-20 inches. This horizon was not sampled.