IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fruitland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003CO677008-JH
  • User Pedon ID: 03CO085008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0234
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16631
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024
  • 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: 38.5688515
  • Std. Longitude: -108.0551834
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 50N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 SW 1/4
  • Map Unit: 780—Fruitland sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO085—Montrose
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO677—Ridgway Area, Colorado, Parts of Delta, Gunnison, Montrose, and Ouray Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38108-E1—Hoovers Corner, Colorado
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeff Hahn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fruitland
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplocambids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent flat angular indurated 2- to 150-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6727-97
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—63

    —-

    —-

    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

    2

    1695

    70

    229

    150

    10

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01016; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01017; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw2—43 to 63 centimeters (16.9 to 24.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-80-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01017; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—63 to 107 centimeters (24.8 to 42.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; loamy sand; 8 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-80-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N01018; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—107 to 154 centimeters (42.1 to 60.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 10 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-80-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red. Lab sample # 04N01018; observed in auger, bucket