IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manvel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016CO101004
  • User Pedon ID: S2016CO101004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0457
  • User Project ID: FY17RND2
  • Project Name: Characterization sampling Manvel Wilid
  • 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: 38.0559630
  • Std. Longitude: -104.2163910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 61W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 231 meters north and 681 meters east from the SW corner
  • Location Description: This pedon is located in the lower central portion of Section 10.
  • Map Unit: MaB—Manvel silt loam, 2 to 6 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: 38104-A2—Flying A Ranch, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul Rindfleisch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manvel
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Haplocalcids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2016
  • 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: 10/26/2106 (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 Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    Bk1

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    Bk5

    Bk6

    0

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    43

    88

    127

    168

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    43

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

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    Bk3

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    Bk5

    Bk6

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    calcic horizon

    0—5

    5—200

    127—200

    —5—

    —195—

    —73—
    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

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02378; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02379; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02380; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—43 to 88 centimeters (16.9 to 34.6 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02381; observed in pit, small
    Bk4—88 to 127 centimeters (34.6 to 50.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02382; observed in pit, small
    Bk5—127 to 168 centimeters (50.0 to 66.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02383; observed in pit, small
    Bk6—168 to 200 centimeters (66.1 to 78.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 17N02384; observed in pit, small