IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rocky Ford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960CO099004
  • User Pedon ID: S1960CO099004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3916
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39562
  • Print Date: 4/30/2025

    • 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: 38.0919456
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2466660
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 0.3 mile north and 100 feet east of the south 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 #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rocky Ford
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torrior
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/1960
  • 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: 11/18/1960 (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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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29985
    Ap2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 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; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29986
    AC—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29987. Few worm casts.
    C1—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29988. Some mycelial lime.
    C2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 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 # 40A29989