IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nutrita

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S2003CO6680025

User Pedon ID: S2003CO007025

Vegetation Plot ID: S2003CO6680025

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 04N0578

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16282

Print Date: 11/24/2024

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: 37.0744667

Std. Longitude: -107.1781158

Datum: WGS84

Township: 33 N.

Range: 3 W.

Section: 28

PLSS Details: 2300 feet north and 1300 feet west of the southeast corner

Map Unit: C5-F—Camado-Ishkoten-Nutrita complex, 5 to 45 percent slopes

Country: US—United States

State: Colorado

County: CO007—Archuleta

MLRA: 36—Southwestern Plateaus, Mesas, and Foothills

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO668—Archuleta County Area, Colorado

PEDON

Describers Name: J.P. Pannell

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Haplustalfs

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: TUD pedon

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Pedon #: 25

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Nutrita

Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Haplustalfs

PSC - 18 to 91 cm.

Classificaton Date - 7/16/2003

Soil Taxonomic Edition - second edition

Moisture Class - ustic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from sandstone and shale

Landform: hill

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Hill Slope Profile: backslope

Slope Position: middle third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Runoff: very high

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered sandstone and shale at 91cm

Geology: Animas formation.

Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75- to 250-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 7/16/2003 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 3GG-78

Plant Association Name: ponderosa pine-Gambel oak

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers

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 JUSC2 PASM PIPO PLJA PUTR2 QUGA	Bouteloua gracilis Juniperus scopulorum Pascopyrum smithii Pinus ponderosa Pleuraphis jamesii Purshia tridentata Quercus gambelii	blue grama Rocky Mountain juniper western wheatgrass ponderosa pine James' galleta antelope bitterbrush Gambel oak	— — — — — — —	— — — — — — —	— — — — — — —

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, paralithic	weakly coherent	91 -	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon argillic horizon paralithic contact	0—18 18—91 91—	—- —- —-

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
20	500	200	2073	—	180	406	—	105	8.3	—	—	9.5	—	—	—	—	6250	Pagosa Springs, CO	—

A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.8, phenol red; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small

AB—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small

Bt1—18 to 61 centimeters (7.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; clay; 44 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 6.8, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N03262; dry when described; observed in pit, small

Bt2—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small

Cr—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; dry when described; observed in pit, small