IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029011
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 23—Chipeta silty clay, 3 to 30 percent slopes
  • 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-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 60.00 percent 2- to 150-millimeter shale, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/5/2013 (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

    15

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    1636

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    315

    24

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; 20 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots and common fine roots; 5 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt—5 to 22 centimeters (2.0 to 8.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; 34 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few very fine roots and few fine roots; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4; clear smooth boundary.
    Btz—22 to 46 centimeters (8.7 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; 38 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few fine roots; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6; gradual wavy boundary.
    BCtz—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; 29 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; gradual wavy boundary.
    C—76 to 96 centimeters (29.9 to 37.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear wavy boundary.
    Cr—96 to 102 centimeters (37.8 to 40.2 inches); fragments.