IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rocky Ford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960CO099008
  • User Pedon ID: S1960CO099008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3918
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39564
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 38.0900002
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4847260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 0.3 mile north and 100 feet east of the west 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 #: 8
  • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29995
    Ap2—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 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 # 40A29996
    AC—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29997
    C1—41 to 94 centimeters (16.1 to 37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29998
    C2—94 to 114 centimeters (37.0 to 44.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A29999
    C3—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; stratified silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A30000. Violently effervescent with a few lime mottles.