IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): GRAYPOINT
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970CO021007
  • User Pedon ID: S1970CO021007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970CO021007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 70C0082
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43863
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.3858566
  • Std. Longitude: -106.0997543
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet south and 1550 feet west of the northeast corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO021—Conejos
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO630—Conejos County Area, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Pannell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GRAYPOINT
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Haplargids
  • PSC - 12 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent 2- to 76-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    BOGR2

    CHRYS9

    MUGL3

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Chrysothamnus

    Muhlenbergia glomerata

    blue grama

    rabbitbrush

    spiked muhly

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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

    0.5

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    2316

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    135

    178

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    A1—1 to 12 centimeters (0.4 to 4.7 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 15 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00523
    Bt2—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches); 7.5Y 6/2 (7.5Y 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; thin clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00524. continuous - phpvsfiid 295221; continuous - phpvsfiid 295221
    Cc1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly loam; massive; hard, friable; 30 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00525
    2Cc2—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 60 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00526
    2C3—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand, very gravelly loamy sand; massive; loose, loose; 60 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments.