IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029009
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/7/2025

    • 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: 38.6225201
  • Std. Longitude: -107.8886795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 80—Utaline-Torriorthents complex
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO029—Delta
  • MLRA: 34B—Warm Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO679—Paonia Area, Colorado, Parts of Delta, Gunnison, and Montrose Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David A Dearstyne
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - unnnamed
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic, shallow Aridic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter igneous, unspecified, 10.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter igneous, unspecified, 2.00 percent 600 igneous, unspecified, 5.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter igneous, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/30/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: David Dearstyne
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    66

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    2259

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    180

    30

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; 24 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine roots and many medium roots and many fine roots and few coarse roots; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary.
    Btyz—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; 26 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine roots and many medium roots and many fine roots and few coarse roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine gypsum masses and 5 percent medium salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary.
    BCz—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; 33 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; common very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots; 20 percent medium salt masses; 40 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary.
    Cr—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); fragments.