IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valent
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1999CO073045TUD
  • User Pedon ID: 1999CO073045TUD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0034
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61967
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 39.0144556
  • Std. Longitude: -103.4640139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S.
  • Range: 54 W.
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1,875 feet north and 675 feet west of the SE corner
  • Map Unit: 193—Valent loamy sand, 1 to 15 percent slopes, warm
  • 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: 39103-A4—Hugo SW, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LAN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 218
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valent
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valent
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands
  • Landform: dune
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—10

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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

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    356

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    10

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sand; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    C1—8 to 109 centimeters (3.1 to 42.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; sand; single grain; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.
    C2—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sand; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent.