IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ordway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10CO025003
  • User Pedon ID: 10CO025003
  • User Site Association ID: lan5-3_2010.6
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0774
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43208
  • 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: 38.2424722
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7525278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 S.
  • Range: 57 W.
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet west and 450 feet south of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: OpB—Ordway clay, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO025—Crowley
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-PUE—Pueblo, Colorado
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO025—Crowley County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38103-B7—Ordway, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lee A. Neve, Laura Craven, Bill Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Sodic Haplogypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 173
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ordway
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Sodic Haplogypsids
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/18/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium over residuum weathered from shale
  • Landform: pediment, plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very weakly coherent at 66cm
  • Geology: Lower Unit member of the Pierre formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/18/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    very weakly coherent

    66 - 102

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    8—46

    66—102

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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

    2

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    1333

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    90

    330

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    11

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bny1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; 48 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent distinct pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 4 percent fine distinct spherical salt masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bny2—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2 percent fine and medium distinct spherical salt masses in matrix and 3 percent medium distinct spherical gypsum masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bky—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; 41 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent fine and medium distinct spherical gypsum masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Cr—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches); bedrock; 50 percent clay; 10 percent fine and medium distinct spherical gypsum masses in matrix and 10 percent medium and coarse distinct platy gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence.