IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wages
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012CO001004
  • User Pedon ID: S2012CO001004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8340
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73007
  • 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: 39.7507778
  • Std. Longitude: -104.6097222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 65W
  • Section: 36
  • Map Unit: WmB—Weld loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO001—Adams
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-FTM—Fort Morgan, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO001—Adams County Area, Parts of Adams and Denver Counties, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39104-G5—Manila, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Moore and Andy Steinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wages
  • PSC - 9 to 59 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/2013
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nunn
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/2012
  • Classifier - Mike Moore
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or calcareous loess
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Ksat Class Upper: moderately low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 32
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—42

    9—78

    —42—

    —69—
    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

    3

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    1677

    1677

    360

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    Ap—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 30 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 25 percent clay; strong medium cloddy parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05045; observed in push tube
    Bt1—9 to 26 centimeters (3.5 to 10.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 37 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05046; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1038091; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1038091
    Bt2—26 to 42 centimeters (10.2 to 16.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay; 37 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 42 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05047; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1038092; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1038092
    Btk—42 to 78 centimeters (16.5 to 30.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay; 32 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 44 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; few fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05048; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1038093; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1038093
    Bk—78 to 115 centimeters (30.7 to 45.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 2.82 um/s; moderately slow permeability; few very fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05049; observed in push tube
    C1—115 to 146 centimeters (45.3 to 57.5 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 28 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 2.82 um/s; moderately slow permeability; few very fine roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05050; observed in push tube
    C2—146 to 200 centimeters (57.5 to 78.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 62 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 23 percent clay; structureless massive; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N05051; observed in push tube