IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort Collins
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958WY031007
  • User Pedon ID: S1958WY031007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3443
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38558
  • 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: 41.9619102
  • Std. Longitude: -105.0192032
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 68W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: northwest quarter of southwest quarter of southwest quarter, beginning at southwest corner (center of crossroads), then north 1094 feet and east 550 feet.
  • State: Wyoming
  • County: WY031—Platte
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WY031—Platte County, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. J. Cline and Fraser Stephens
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • 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
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine granular structure; very hard, very friable; clay films on all faces of peds; carbonate concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26670. horizon temperature 18.5 degrees centigrade.; patchy - phpvsfiid 196712; patchy - phpvsfiid 196712
    B2t—15 to 24 centimeters (5.9 to 9.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26671. horizon temperature 16.5 degrees centigrade.; continuous - phpvsfiid 196713; continuous - phpvsfiid 196713
    B3ca—24 to 43 centimeters (9.4 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26672. this is a moderate to strong horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring as concretions and in finely divided forms; horizon temperature 16 degrees centigrade.; patchy - phpvsfiid 196714; patchy - phpvsfiid 196714
    Cca—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 3 percent carbonate concretions and gypsum threads; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26673. this is a weak to moderate horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring as concretions and in thin seams and streaks; horizon temperature 16 temperature centigrade.
    C1—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 1 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26674. this is a weak horizon of lime accumulation with visible lime occurring mostly as concretions; horizon temperature 16.5 degrees centigrade.
    D—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose; noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A26675. this horizon contains a few large soft concretions of lime several inches in diameter and intermixed with less limy material; approximately 70 percent of this horizon is gravel and cobble.