IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pleasant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016CO115001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016CO115001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2016CO115001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0910
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 85174
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 40.8679750
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2835278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 44W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 710 feet north and 710 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Located approximately 8 miles south and 3 miles west of Julesburg, CO.
  • Map Unit: Sc—Scott silt loam
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO115—Sedgwick
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-GAR—Garden City, Kansas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO115—Sedgwick County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40102-G3—Julesburg SE, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Moore, Tim White, Andy Steinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Torrertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pleasant
  • PSC - 24 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/2017
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pleasant
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Torrertic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 24 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/2016
  • Classifier - Andy Steinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed eolian deposits and/or slope alluvium over tertiary aged alluvium
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: playa floor on playa on broad flat interfluve
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Ksat Class Upper: moderately low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Andy Steinert
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 24
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AMHE3

    BRTE

    Ambrosia �helenae [artemisiifolia � trifida]

    Bromus tectorum

    ragweed

    cheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—138

    24—138

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    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

    1

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    1142

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    300

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    Ap—0 to 24 centimeters (0.0 to 9.4 inches); gray (7.5YR 5/1) interior, black (7.5YR 2.5/1) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 2.82 um/s; moderately slow permeability; common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N04043; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—24 to 51 centimeters (9.4 to 20.1 inches); gray (7.5YR 5/1) broken face, black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; few medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N04044; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, moist; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 43 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; few fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N04045; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 48 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; very few very fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N04046; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—94 to 138 centimeters (37.0 to 54.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 45 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.915 um/s; slow permeability; very few very fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N04047; observed in pit, small
    2C—138 to 203 centimeters (54.3 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; loam; 40 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 22 percent clay; structureless massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 9.17 um/s; moderate permeability; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 3-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 16N04048; observed in pit, small