IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hackamore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019CO089001
  • User Pedon ID: S2019CO089001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0155
  • User Project ID: 2020-05PUE-001
  • Project Name: DSP-CO-2020-No-till cropland sampling of Hackamore series in MLRA 69
  • 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: 37.9732260
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7159890
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24S
  • Range: 56W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Phillip Chavez property
  • Map Unit: HdB—Hackamore silty clay, 0 to 3 percent slopes, very rarely flooded
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO089—Otero
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PUE—Pueblo, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO089—Otero County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37103-H6—Hawley, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul Rindfleisch, Sara Mack
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Torrertic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hackamore
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Torrertic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 41 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/2019
  • Classifier - Laura Craven
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Paul Rindfleisch, Sara Mack
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    0—41

    41—135

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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

    0.5

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    1280

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    279

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    155

    11

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 18 percent sand; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (10.0) medium roots throughout and many (10.0) fine roots throughout; many (10.0) very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00525; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—8 to 41 centimeters (3.1 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; 15 percent sand; 45 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; many (10.0) medium roots throughout and many (10.0) fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine dendritic tubular and common (2.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 20N00526; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout; many (10.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00527; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—64 to 93 centimeters (25.2 to 36.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 38 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout; many (10.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00528; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—93 to 135 centimeters (36.6 to 53.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay; 18 percent sand; 43 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout; many (10.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 3-?-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 20N00529; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—135 to 180 centimeters (53.1 to 70.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; loam; 35 percent sand; 25 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; many (10.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 20N00530; moist when described; observed in pit, small