IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wilid
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016CO101001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016CO101001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0454
  • User Project ID: FY17RND2
  • Project Name: Characterization sampling Manvel Wilid
  • 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: 37.9572870
  • Std. Longitude: -104.2969850
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24 S
  • Range: 62 W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 572 meters north and 88 meters east from the SW corner of the section
  • Location Description: This pedon is located in the central part of the section on the west side of the section. It is located east of County Road 703.
  • Map Unit: WyB—Wilid silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, dry
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO101—Pueblo
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • Regional Office: 5—Salina, KS
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PUE—Pueblo, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO626—Pueblo Area, Colorado, Parts of Pueblo and Custer Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37104-H3—Red Top Ranch, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul Rindfleisch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilid
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Calciargids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 4 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R069XY006CO Loamy Plains

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Laura Craven
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    calcic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—4

    4—224

    4—72

    14—72

    117—224

    117—224

    —4—

    —20—

    —68—

    —68—

    —107—

    —107—
    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

    0.5

    —

    —

    1481

    —

    50

    279

    —

    155

    11

    —

    —

    12

    22

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02354; observed in pit, small
    Btk1—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent faint clay films on bottom faces of peds; 2 percent fine irregular indurated cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02355; observed in pit, small
    Btk2—14 to 45 centimeters (5.5 to 17.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent medium irregular indurated cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02356; observed in pit, small
    Btk3—45 to 72 centimeters (17.7 to 28.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium irregular indurated cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02357; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—72 to 117 centimeters (28.3 to 46.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent fine irregular indurated cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-5-7 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02358; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—117 to 153 centimeters (46.1 to 60.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 17 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6 percent fine irregular indurated cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-5-7 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02359; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—153 to 181 centimeters (60.2 to 71.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 7 percent fine irregular indurated cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-5-7 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N02360; observed in pit, small
    Bk4—181 to 224 centimeters (71.3 to 88.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 7 percent fine irregular indurated cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 2-5-7 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N02361; observed in pit, small