IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gothic
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CO113002
  • User Pedon ID: 86CO113002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0861
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59155
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 37.9086113
  • Std. Longitude: -108.1774979
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO113—San Miguel
  • MLRA: 48A—Southern Rocky Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bowman, G; Bauer, R; Hughes, T; Klameth, L
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Ustic Argicryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gothic
  • PSC - 38 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gothic
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Argic Cryoboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    38—76

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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

    12

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    2755

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    90

    68

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    1A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; clay loam; strong fine granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05156. few to common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1A2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; clay loam; strong medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05157. few to common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bt—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05158. Colors from this horizon down may be lithochromic.; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    1BC—76 to 100 centimeters (29.9 to 39.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05159. Some platy rock structure.
    1C1—100 to 132 centimeters (39.4 to 52.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; clay; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05160. Some platy rock structure.
    1C2—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; clay; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P05161. This horizon has 20% rock structure.
    1Cr—152 to 250 centimeters (59.8 to 98.4 inches); fragments. Weathered Marcos shale.