IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013CO029017
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CO029017
  • 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: 801—Persayo-Badland complex, 25 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO029—Delta
  • MLRA: 34B—Warm Central Desertic Basins and Plateaus
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO677—Ridgway Area, Colorado, Parts of Delta, Gunnison, Montrose, and Ouray 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 - 6/27/2013
  • Classifier - David Dearstyne
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/2013 (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

    38

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    1629

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    292

    24

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; 33 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary.
    BCz—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; 38 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 7 percent fine salt crystals and 8 percent fine salt masses; 80 percent by volume angular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary.
    Cr—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4.