IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Youga
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007CO668005JPP
  • User Pedon ID: S2007CO007005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007CO668005JPP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0571
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19086
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 37.0000000
  • Std. Longitude: -106.4583359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32 N.
  • Range: 5 E.
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet south and 1500 feet east 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: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Argicryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Youga
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Argicryolls
  • PSC - 30 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from volcanic breccia
  • Landform: fan apron
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Volcanic formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 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
    R048AY250CO Subalpine Loam

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: Cumbres
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    FETH

    ACNED

    BRCA5

    CAGE2

    MUMO

    SYAL

    Festuca thurberi

    Achnatherum nelsonii ssp. dorei

    Bromus carinatus

    Carex geyeri

    Muhlenbergia montana

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Thurber's fescue

    Dore's needlegrass

    California brome

    Geyer's sedge

    mountain muhly

    common snowberry

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—30

    30—107

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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

    15

    300

    250

    2957

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    240

    1016

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    50

    3.3

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    3.3

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    Chama, NM

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    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 4.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    Bt1—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 4.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03720; observed in cut
    Bt2—66 to 107 centimeters (26.0 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; sandy clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; moderately acid, pH 5.8.; observed in cut