IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fort
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1999CO073014TUD
  • User Pedon ID: 1999CO073014TUD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1999CO073014TUD
  • User Site Association ID: PuebloSSO_type
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0035
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61968
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 38.7236111
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3984722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 S.
  • Range: 54 W.
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet N and 1900 feet E of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: FrB—Fort loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO073—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO073—Lincoln County, Colorado
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38103-F4—Hubbard Lake, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Laura Craven
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Ustic Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 219
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort
  • PSC - 15 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2012
  • Classifier - Laura Craven
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fort Collins
  • Classificaton Date - 1/16/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/16/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 44
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    PASM

    PLJA

    SPCR

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pleuraphis jamesii

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    western wheatgrass

    James' galleta

    sand dropseed

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—5

    13—86

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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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    1490

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    305

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    11

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6.
    AB—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2.
    Bt—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6.
    Btk1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5.
    Btk2—48 to 86 centimeters (18.9 to 33.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5.
    Bk1—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; clay loam; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5.
    Bk2—109 to 155 centimeters (42.9 to 61.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent fine distinct irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2.