IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rocky Ford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960CO099003
  • User Pedon ID: S1960CO099003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3915
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39561
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.1346931
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4147186
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet west and 750 feet south of the east quarter corner
  • Location Description: Prowers County, Colorado.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO099—Prowers
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO099—Prowers County, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James P. Pannell
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rocky Ford
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torrior
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/15/1960 (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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    1082

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    356

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29980
    Ap2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29981
    AC—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29982. Some mixing of upper horizons in worm and root holes.
    C1—41 to 91 centimeters (16.1 to 35.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 1 percent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29983. A very few line mottles and worm casts.
    C2—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A29984