IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Legault
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CO019003
  • User Pedon ID: 90CO019003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0779
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62712
  • 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: 39.6647224
  • Std. Longitude: -105.4277802
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO019—Clear Creek

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, paramicaceous, not used, shallow Typic Cryorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Legault
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Legault
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed Typic Cryorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    30

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    180

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    Oe—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 90P04550. slightly decomposed needles, twigs, and bark
    Oa—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04551. moderately decomposed needles and twigs
    A—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular, and single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04552. 10% gravel; few coarse roots; common very fine roots
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 0.5 medium interstitial and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04552. 15% gravel; common very fine and fine roots; common coarse roots
    BC—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04553. 10% gravel; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Cr—46 to 63 centimeters (18.1 to 24.8 inches); 2.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments. Lab sample # 90P04554. weathered gneiss; common medium and coarse roots