IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029010
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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 - unnamed
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Ustic Haplocambids
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter igneous, unspecified, 0.50 percent 250- to 600-millimeter igneous, unspecified, 0.50 percent 600 igneous, unspecified, 2.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter igneous, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/4/2013 (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

    53

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    1813

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    180

    25

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; 30 percent clay; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary.
    Bz—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; 35 percent clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3 percent fine salt masses and 2 percent fine salt crystals; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; clear smooth boundary.
    BCz—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; 37 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2 percent very fine salt crystals; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; clear smooth boundary.
    C—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; 32 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 50 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; gradual wavy boundary.
    Cr—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); fragments.