IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rocky Ford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960CO099007
  • User Pedon ID: S1960CO099007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3917
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39563
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 38.0538902
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2469406
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet north and 50 feet west of Junction of Highway 50 and east section line
  • Location Description: Prowers County, Colorado.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO099—Prowers
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO099—Prowers County, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jame P. Pannell
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rocky Ford
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torrior
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1960 (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
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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29990
    Ap2—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29991
    AC—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29992
    C1—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; stratified silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29993
    C2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; stratified loam to silt loam to very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A29994. A very few small salt spots.