IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029014
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 48—Killpack silty clay loam, 3 to 12 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, mixed, active, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent 2- to 150-millimeter shale, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/2013 (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

    18

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    1620

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    315

    25

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots and common coarse roots; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary.
    Btyz—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; 38 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; common very fine roots and common medium roots and common fine roots and common coarse roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine threadlike gypsum masses throughout and 2 percent fine threadlike salt masses throughout and 3 percent medium threadlike salt masses throughout and 3 percent medium threadlike gypsum masses throughout; 10 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary.
    BCyz—41 to 54 centimeters (16.1 to 21.3 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; few fine roots; 7 percent fine threadlike salt masses throughout and 8 percent medium threadlike salt masses throughout; 30 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual smooth boundary.
    Cr—54 to 69 centimeters (21.3 to 27.2 inches); fragments.