IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conejos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007CO668004JPP
  • User Pedon ID: S2007CO007004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007CO668004JPP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0570
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19085
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 37.0033340
  • Std. Longitude: -106.4819412
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32 N.
  • Range: 4 E.
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet east and 600 feet south of the northwest corner of
  • Map Unit: D3-E—Quazar family-Youga complex, 20 to 45 percent slopes, very bouldery
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO007—Archuleta
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO668—Archuleta County Area, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.P. Pannell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Argicryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conejos
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Argicryolls
  • PSC - 38 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or slope alluvium derived from volcanic breccia
  • Landform: landslide on mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.10 percent nonflat indurated 250- to 600-millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified, 0.10 percent nonflat indurated 600- to 3000-millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F048AY917CO Abies lasiocarpa/Paxistima myrsinites/Erigeron eximius

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/4/2007 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID: Cumbres
  • Plant Association Name: Englemann spruce-Subalpine fir
  • 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

    ABCO

    ABLA

    BRCI2

    CARO5

    FETH

    LOIN5

    PIEN

    POTR5

    PSME

    SYOR2

    VAMY2

    Abies concolor

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Bromus ciliatus

    Carex rossii

    Festuca thurberi

    Lonicera involucrata

    Picea engelmannii

    Populus tremuloides

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Symphoricarpos oreophilus

    Vaccinium myrtillus

    white fir

    subalpine fir

    fringed brome

    Ross' sedge

    Thurber's fescue

    twinberry honeysuckle

    Engelmann spruce

    quaking aspen

    Douglas-fir

    mountain snowberry

    whortleberry

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    38—91

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    —53—
    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

    200

    400

    2896

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    180

    1016

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    50

    3.3

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    3.3

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    Chama, NM

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    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly acid, pH 6.4, phenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly acid, pH 6.4, phenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—38 to 91 centimeters (15.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; very cobbly sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly acid, pH 6.4, phenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03719; observed in pit, small
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; very cobbly loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly acid, pH 6.4, phenol red.; observed in pit, small