IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): IRIGUL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975CO045004
  • User Pedon ID: S1975CO045004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975CO045004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3286
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38401
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.6155319
  • Std. Longitude: -108.1223373
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 96W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: northeast quarter of southwest quarter
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO045—Garfield
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO683—Rifle Area, Colorado, Parts of Garfield and Mesa Counties

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Cryoborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - IRIGUL
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Cryoborolls
  • PSC - 25 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1975
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: steep mountain slope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1975 (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

    ARTR2

    PURSH

    QUGA

    SYMPH

    Artemisia tridentata

    Purshia

    Quercus gambelii

    Symphoricarpos

    big sagebrush

    bitterbrush

    Gambel oak

    snowberry

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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

    35

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    2468.9

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    225

    470

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy clay loam; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25616
    B2—15 to 44 centimeters (5.9 to 17.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25617
    R—44 centimeters (17.3 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A25618