IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): UNNAMED
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975CO081003
  • User Pedon ID: S1975CO081003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975CO081003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3297
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38412
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.3349686
  • Std. Longitude: -107.8884430
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 94W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Moffat County, Colorado.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO081—Moffat
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO686—Moffat County Area, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dennis Nettleton
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Ustic Natrargids
  • PSC - 23 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/1975
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: rolling upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/1975 (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

    ATCO

    PASM

    SARCO

    Artemisia tridentata

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sarcobatus

    big sagebrush

    shadscale saltbush

    western wheatgrass

    greasewood

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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

    6

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    1939

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    225

    330

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    A21—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25682
    A22—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; moderate very thin platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25683
    B21T—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25684
    B2T—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25685
    B23SA—56 to 112 centimeters (22.0 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25686
    C—112 to 173 centimeters (44.1 to 68.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A25687