IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979CO013001
  • User Pedon ID: S1979CO013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0348
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47081
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Northwest ridge, 200 yards west/northwest of Burn Knoll. Kobiesia community.
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO013—Boulder
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40105-A5—Ward, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Burns
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Pergelic Cryoborolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2006
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kobresia
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Pergelic Cryoboroll
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gneiss and/or schist
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    A11—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); black (7.5YR 2/1), very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2), dry; loam; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01837. 79P1841.
    A12—14 to 24 centimeters (5.5 to 9.4 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01838. 79P1842.
    B1—24 to 46 centimeters (9.4 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01839. 79P1843.
    B2—46 to 110 centimeters (18.1 to 43.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; loam; 26 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 14 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; firm; very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry, clay films and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01840. 79P1844.