IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Satanta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10CO009813
  • User Pedon ID: 10CO009813
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 10CO009813
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40916
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 37.3403053
  • Std. Longitude: -102.0686111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31s
  • Range: 41w
  • Section: 17
  • Location Description: 57 meters north and 768 meters east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: DhB—Dalhart sandy loam, 1 to 3 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-D1—Saunders, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Satanta
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 10 to 39 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2010
  • 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: 8/10/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    secondary carbonates

    0—21

    10—39

    39—

    39—180

    —21—

    —29—

    —-

    —141—
    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

    1.5

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    1125

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    160

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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; sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4755; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—10 to 21 centimeters (3.9 to 8.3 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4756; observed in auger, bucket. continuous - phpvsfiid 550344; continuous - phpvsfiid 550344
    Bt2—21 to 39 centimeters (8.3 to 15.4 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face, moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 60 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4757; observed in auger, bucket. continuous - phpvsfiid 550345; continuous - phpvsfiid 550345
    2Bk1—39 to 86 centimeters (15.4 to 33.9 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent medium irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4758; observed in auger, bucket
    2Bk2—86 to 180 centimeters (33.9 to 70.9 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS4759; observed in auger, bucket