IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort Collins
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958WY031006
  • User Pedon ID: S1958WY031006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3442
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38557
  • 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: 42.0402794
  • Std. Longitude: -104.9394455
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 67W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: northeast quarter of southwest quarter of northeast quarter, beginning at center of wooden culvert on No. 1 canal (which is approximately 600 feet east of west quarter corner of section) then east 557 and north 711 feet.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY031—Platte
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY031—Platte County, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. J. Cline and Franser Stephens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Collins
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    1

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    135

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    -7.8

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26662. horizon temperature 16.5 degrees centigrade.
    Ap2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26663. horizon temperature 17.5 degrees centigrade.; patchy - phpvsfiid 187131; patchy - phpvsfiid 187131
    B2t—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate and strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26664. horizon temperature 17 degrees centigrade.; continuous - phpvsfiid 187132; continuous - phpvsfiid 187132
    B3ca—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; clay films on all faces of peds; carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26665. insect casts approximately 1/2-inch in diameter are common in this horizon; horizon temperature 17 degrees centigrade.; patchy - phpvsfiid 196711; patchy - phpvsfiid 196711
    Cca1—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 3 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26666. moderate horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring as concretions and in finely divided forms; horizon temperature 16.5 degrees centigrade.
    Cca2—84 to 97 centimeters (33.1 to 38.2 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; 1 percent carbonate concretions; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26667. this is a weak horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring mainly as concretions; approximately 20 percent of this horizon is gravel and cobbles; horizon temperature 16.5 degrees centigrade.
    Cca3—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26668. this is a strong horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring in finely divided forms; approximately 20 percent of this horizon is gravel and cobble.
    D—112 centimeters (44.1 inches); gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A26669. (Not sample.) horizon contains approximately 40 percent gravel and cobble; lime accumulation occurs mainly as a coating on the surface of the rock and cobble.