IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Satanta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10CO009801
  • User Pedon ID: 10CO009801
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 10CO009801
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40912
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 37.2765961
  • Std. Longitude: -102.1213379
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32s
  • Range: 42w
  • Section: 11
  • Location Description: 369 meters south and 715 meters west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: DhA—Dalhart sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO009—Baca
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO009—Baca County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37102-C1—Stonington SE, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Satanta
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • PSC - 10 to 35 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits over loess
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: sand sheet
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ogallala formation of the Loess group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    secondary carbonates

    0—10

    10—35

    35—

    35—220

    —10—

    —25—

    —-

    —185—
    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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    —

    1143

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; loam; 19 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4733; observed in push tube
    Bt—10 to 35 centimeters (3.9 to 13.8 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent prominent clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4734; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 550342; continuous - phpvsfiid 550342
    2Bk1—35 to 139 centimeters (13.8 to 54.7 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 2.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 8 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4735; observed in push tube
    2Bk2—139 to 198 centimeters (54.7 to 78.0 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4736; observed in push tube
    2Bk3—198 to 220 centimeters (78.0 to 86.6 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; silt loam; 21 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS4737; observed in push tube