IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wiley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 12CO009004s3
  • User Pedon ID: S2012CO009004s3
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 12CO009004s3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7600
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47554
  • 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: 37.4581389
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6448333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30 S
  • Range: 47 W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet west and 1100 feet north of the SE corner
  • Map Unit: WIA—Wiley loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO009—Baca
  • MLRA: 67B—Central High Plains, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PUE—Pueblo, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO009—Baca County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37102-D6—Springfield West, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lee A. Neve, Bill Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 733
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wiley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ogallala formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 5-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    BOCU

    BOGR2

    SPCR

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    sideoats grama

    blue grama

    sand dropseed

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—60

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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

    1

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    1349

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    170

    405

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    165

    12

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 7 percent sand; 26 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00919; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 26 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00920
    Btk1—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 33 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct spherical carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00921
    Btk2—18 to 60 centimeters (7.1 to 23.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct spherical carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00922