IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lucky
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959CO051002
  • User Pedon ID: S1959CO051002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959CO051002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3889
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39535
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 38.4402771
  • Std. Longitude: -106.8447189
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 48N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: photo 3020, Gunnison County, Colorado.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO051—Gunnison

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles F. Fox
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lucky
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3020
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ARTR2

    PURSH

    PUTR2

    Artemisia tridentata

    Purshia

    Purshia tridentata

    big sagebrush

    bitterbrush

    antelope bitterbrush

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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

    25

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    2789

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    A11—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonplastic; 21.0 roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29787
    A12—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky; 21.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29788
    B2t—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very hard, firm, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A29789. Occasional angular gneiss and schist rocks.
    B3—51 to 94 centimeters (20.1 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy clay loam; weak medium angular blocky parts to strong fine granular structure; 0.1 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A29790. 37in plus. Gneiss and schist bedrock.