IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Conejos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007CO668006JPP
  • User Pedon ID: S2007CO007006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007CO668006JPP
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0572
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19087
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 36.9983330
  • Std. Longitude: -106.4866638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32 N.
  • Range: 4 E.
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: Projected 2500 feet south and 2700 feet west of the northeast corner of projected
  • 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: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Conejos
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, 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 - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium and/or colluvium 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: 6/13/2007 (actual site observation 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

    LALA6

    LOIN5

    PIEN

    POA

    POTR5

    PSME

    SYOR2

    THALI2

    VAMY2

    Abies concolor

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Bromus ciliatus

    Carex rossii

    Festuca thurberi

    Lathyrus laetivirens

    Lonicera involucrata

    Picea engelmannii

    Poa

    Populus tremuloides

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Symphoricarpos oreophilus

    Thalictrum

    Vaccinium myrtillus

    white fir

    subalpine fir

    fringed brome

    Ross' sedge

    Thurber's fescue

    aspen pea

    twinberry honeysuckle

    Engelmann spruce

    bluegrass

    quaking aspen

    Douglas-fir

    mountain snowberry

    meadow-rue

    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—30

    30—102

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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

    40

    500

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    2804

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    180

    1016

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    50

    3.3

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    3.3

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    CHAME, 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; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 2 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; neutral, pH 6.6, phenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    Bt1—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very cobbly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03721; observed in cut
    Bt2—61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very cobbly sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very stony sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-38-75 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter volcanic breccia, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red.; observed in cut