IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): UNNAMED
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975CO081004
  • User Pedon ID: S1975CO081004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975CO081004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3296
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38411
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 94W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, SE 1/4
  • 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 #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/1975
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • 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

    PASM

    PSSPI

    Artemisia tridentata

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. inermis

    big sagebrush

    western wheatgrass

    beardless wheatgrass

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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

    10

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    180

    330

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25676
    A12—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25677
    B21—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 40 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25678
    B22—25 to 42 centimeters (9.8 to 16.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 40 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25679
    B3CA—42 to 76 centimeters (16.5 to 29.9 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A25680
    CR—76 to 148 centimeters (29.9 to 58.3 inches); bedrock; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A25681