IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): WILEY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996CO071012
  • User Pedon ID: 96CO071012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1996CO071012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0589
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10270
  • 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: 37.3316650
  • Std. Longitude: -103.1826935
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 51W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 2,500 feet west and 1,900 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Colorado
  • County: CO071—Las Animas
  • MLRA: 67—Central High Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CO628—Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37103-C2—Andrix, Colorado

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lee A. Neve, Tony Arnhold
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - WILEY
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wiley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Haplustalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/1996
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 33-F
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARLO3

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    GUSA2

    SPCR

    YUCCA

    Aristida longiseta

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Yucca

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    blue grama

    buffalograss

    broom snakeweed

    sand dropseed

    yucca

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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

    3

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    1609

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    120

    381

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.1 medium roots; very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P03467
    A2—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.1 coarse roots; very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P03468. Probably an old plow layer (Ap).
    Btk—38 to 86 centimeters (15.0 to 33.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.1 fine roots; fine interstitial pores; 20 percent distinct on faces of peds; 2 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P03469. patchy - phpvsfiid 201207; patchy - phpvsfiid 201207
    Ck—86 to 178 centimeters (33.9 to 70.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 97P03470. Contains more than 15% but less than 35% sand.